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List of virtual communities with more than 100 million active users
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This is a list of current virtual communities with more than 100 million active users. As of 2016[update], 46% of the world's human population (or 3.4 billion) has used the services of the Internet within the past year—over 100 times more people than were using it in 1995 (see Global Internet usage).[1][2]
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Rank
Name
Company
Registered users
Active user accounts
Date launched
Country of origin
Date of active user stat.
7000100000000000000♠ 1 Facebook Facebook Inc. 7009200090000000000♠ 2+ billion[3] 7009201009999999999♠ 2.01 billion[4] 000000002004-02-01-0000February 2004 United States 000000002017-06-01-0000June 2017
7000200000000000000♠ 2 WhatsApp Facebook Inc. 7009120000000000000♠ 1.2+ billion[5] 7009120000000000000♠ 1.2 billion[5] 000000002009-02-01-0000February 2009 United States 000000002016-12-01-0000December 2016
7001980000000000000♠ - Facebook Messenger Facebook Inc. 7009200080000000000♠ 2+ billion[3] 7009120080000000000♠ 1.2 billion[6] 000000002011-08-01-0000August 2011 United States 000000002017-03-01-0000March 2017
7000300000000000000♠ 3 WeChat Tencent Holdings Limited 7009100079999999999♠ 1+ billion[7] 7008889000000000000♠ 938 million[8] 000000002011-01-01-0000January 2011 China 000000002016-12-01-0000December 2016
7000400000000000000♠ 4 Tencent QQ Tencent Holdings Limited 7009100089999999999♠ 1+ billion[9] 7008868000000000000♠ 868 million[10] 000000001999-02-01-0000February 1999 China 000000002016-12-01-0000December 2016
7001990000000000000♠ - Tencent Qzone Tencent Holdings Limited 7009100069999999999♠ 1+ billion[9] 7008638000000000000♠ 638 million[11] 000000002005-05-01-0000May 2005 China 000000002016-12-01-0000December 2016
7000500000000000000♠ 5 Instagram Facebook Inc. 7008800000000000000♠ 800+ million[12] 7008800000000000000♠ 800 million[12] 000000002010-10-01-0000October 2010 United States 000000002017-08-01-0000August 2017
7000700000000000000♠ 6 Sina Weibo Sina Corp 7008503000000000000♠ 503+ million[13] 7008340000000000000♠ 340 million[14] 000000002009-08-01-0000August 2009 China 000000002017-03-01-0000March 2017
7000600000000000000♠ 7 Twitter Twitter Inc. 7009100050000000000♠ 1+ billion[15] 7008328000000000000♠ 328 million[16] 000000002006-03-01-0000March 2006 United States 000000002017-03-01-0000March 2017
7000800000000000000♠ 8 Skype Microsoft 7008750000000000000♠ 750 million[17] 7008300100000000000♠ 300 million[18] 000000002003-08-01-0000August 2003 Estonia 000000002016-03-01-0000March 2016
7000900000000000000♠ 9 Baidu Tieba Baidu 7009150000000000000♠ 1.5 billion[19] 7008300000000000000♠ 300 million[19] 000000002003-12-01-0000December 2003 China 000000002016-08-01-0000August 2016
7001100000000000000♠ 10 Viber Rakuten Inc. 7008858000000000000♠ 858 million[20] 7008249000000000000♠ 249 million[20] 000000002010-12-01-0000December 2010 Israel Japan 000000002015-06-01-0000June 2015
7001110000000000000♠ 11 LINE Naver Corporation 7008600000000000000♠ 600 million[21] 7008217000000000000♠ 217 million[22] 000000002011-06-01-0000June 2011 Japan South Korea 000000002016-12-01-0000December 2016
7001120000000000000♠ 12 Google+ Google 7009200000000000000♠ 2+ billion[23] 7008212000000000000♠ 212 million[24] 000000002011-06-01-0000June 2011 United States 000000002015-04-01-0000April 2015
7001130000000000000♠ 13 Pinterest Pinterest 7008150000000000000♠ 200+ million[25] 7008150000000000000♠ 200 million[25] 000000002010-03-01-0000March 2010 United States 000000002017-09-01-0000September 2017
7001140000000000000♠ 14 Snapchat Snap Inc. 7008161000000000000♠ 161+ million[26] 7008161000000000000♠ 161+ million[26] 000000002011-09-01-0000September 2011 United States 000000002016-12-01-0000December 2016
7001150000000000000♠ 15 King of Glory Tencent Holdings Limited 7008200000000000000♠ 200+ million[27] 7008160000000000000♠ 160 million[28] 000000002015-11-01-0000November 2015 China 000000002017-05-01-0000May 2017
7001160000000000000♠ 16 LinkedIn Microsoft 7008466000000000000♠ 466 million[29] 7008106000000000000♠ 106 million[29] 000000002003-05-01-0000May 2003 United States 000000002016-09-01-0000September 2016
7001170000000000000♠ 17 VK Mail.Ru 7008433000000000000♠ 369 million[30] 7008100200000000000♠ 100+ million[31] October 2006 Russian Federation 000000002016-09-01-0000September 2016
7001180000000000000♠ 18 League of Legends Tencent Holdings Limited 7008100000000000000♠ 100+ million[32] 7008100400000000000♠ 100+ million[32] 000000002009-10-01-0000October 2009 United States 000000002016-09-01-0000September 2016
7001190000000000000♠ 19 BBM Emtek 7008190000000000000♠ 190 million[33] 7008100300000000000♠ 100 million[34] 000000002007-02-01-0000February 2007 Canada 000000002015-02-01-0000February 2015
7001200000000000000♠ 20 Telegram Telegram Messenger LLP 7008100000000000000♠ 100+ million[35] 7008100000000000000♠ 100 million[35] 000000002013-08-01-0000August 2013 United Kingdom 000000002016-02-01-0000February 2016
Note: An "active user" is defined as a user who has interacted with the community in the last 30 days while logged in.[36][37] This metric is different from monthly unique visitors, which includes unregistered readers who are only consumers and not creators of content. See also monthly active users.
See also[edit]
List of Internet forums
List of social bookmarking websites
List of social networking websites
List of virtual communities
List of virtual communities with more than 1 million users
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^ Jump up to: a b "Rakuten, Inc.: Earnings Releases (2016) < Earnings Releases". Rakuten, Inc. 13 February 2017.
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