Top 10 Most Popular Social Networking Web Sites
1.Youtube
YouTube, LLC is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries.
Founders: Jawed Karim, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley
CEO: Susan Wojcicki (Feb 5, 2014–)
Approximately 1.8 billion users
2. Twitter
Twitter is an American online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets". Tweets were originally restricted to 140 characters, but on November 7, 2017, this limit was doubled for all languages except Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
Founded: March 21, 2006, San Francisco, California, United States
CEO: Jack Dorsey
Approximately 320 million active users
3. Telegram
Telegram is a cloud-based instant messaging and voice over IP service developed by Telegram Messenger LLP, a privately held company registered in London, United Kingdom, founded by the Russian entrepreneur Pavel Durov and his brother Nikolai.
Type Instant messaging
License GNU GPLv2 or GPLv3 (clients), proprietary (server)
Approximately 100 million active users
4. Whatsapp
WhatsApp Messenger is a freeware and cross-platform messaging and Voice over IP service owned by Facebook. The application allows the sending of text messages and voice calls, as well as video calls, images and other media, documents, and user location.
Written in: Erlang
Owner: Facebook
Approximately 1 billion active users
5. Google Plus
Google+, pronounced and sometimes written as Google Plus, is an Internet-based social network that is owned and operated by Google. The service, Google's fourth foray into social networking, experienced strong growth in its initial years, although usage statistics have varied, depending on how the service is defined.
Date launched: June 28, 2011
Created by: Vic Gundotra, Bradley Horowitz
Approximately 111 million active users
6. Tumblr
Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking website founded by David Karp in 2007 and owned by Verizon Media. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users' blogs. Bloggers can also make their blogs private.
Founded by: David Karp
Alexa rank: 36 (2017)
Approximately 555 million active users
7. Pinterest
Pinterest, Inc. is a social media web and mobile application company that operates a software system designed to discover information on the World Wide Web, mainly using images and, on a smaller scale, GIFs and videos. The site was founded by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra and Evan Sharp.
Owner: Cold Brew Labs, Inc.
Founders: Ben Silbermann, Evan Sharp, Paul Sciarra
Approximately 100 million active users
8. LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a business and employment-oriented service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Founded on December 28, 2002, and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking, including employers posting jobs and job seekers posting their CVs.
Parent organization: Microsoft Corporation
Founders: Konstantin Guericke, Reid Hoffman, Allen Blue, Jean-Luc Vaillant, Eric Ly
Approximately 100 million active users
9. Facebook
Founders: Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes Trending
10. Instagram
Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, Inc. It was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010 exclusively on iOS.
Owner: Facebook, Inc.
Developed by: Facebook, Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger
Approximately 320 million active users
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