TikTok saw an exceptional increase of monthly active users worldwide from 2019 to 2021, at 38 percent. The short-form video sharing app was used by 689 million individuals monthly as of 2021, compared to 500 million in 2019. Other leading social networks that increased with over 30 percent were Pinterest and Reddit.

The coronavirus pandemic is one of the factors that have resulted in an increased interest in social networking, with billions of people in lockdown, working and studying from home, and in need of socializing.

Market leader Facebook was the first social network to surpass one billion registered accounts and currently sits at more than three billion monthly active users. Meta Platforms owns four of the biggest social media platforms, all with more than one billion monthly active users each: Facebook (core platform), WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram. In the third quarter of 2023, Facebook reported around four billion monthly core Family product users. The United States and China account for the most high-profile social platforms Most top-ranked social networks with more than 100 million users originated in the United States, but services like Chinese social networks WeChat, QQ, or video-sharing app Douyin have also garnered mainstream appeal in their respective regions due to local context and content. Douyin’s popularity has led to the platform releasing an international version of its network, TikTok. How many people use social media? The leading social networks are usually available in multiple languages and enable users to connect with friends or people across geographical, political, or economic borders. In 2025, social networking sites are estimated to reach 5.44 billion users, and these figures are still expected to grow as mobile device usage and mobile social networks increasingly gain traction in previously underserved markets.

As of October 2022, TikTok's global monthly active users were estimated to make up around ** percent of the platform's user base. In comparison, users in the United States engaging with the platform on a monthly basis were estimated to compose a *** percent share of the total. In the same period, ** percent of YouTube MAU were estimated to be based in the U.S., while almost ** percent of the platform's MAU were composed of global users.

In May 2022, YouTube was France's most used online network, with ***** million monthly active users. Meta owned Facebook and WhatsApp ranked second and third, with ***** and ***** million monthly active users, respectively. In addition, Pinterest and Twitter each had around ** million monthly active users in the country.

Chinese citizens displayed a strong online presence, having approximately **** billion active social media users as of October 2025. Other Asia-Pacific countries and regions appeared to trail behind China in terms of their social media engagement. India and Indonesia, the second- and third-ranked countries in terms of number of active social media users, had *** million and *** million active social media users, respectively. Leading social media platforms Facebook reigns worldwide and in the Asia-Pacific region as the most-used social media site, having displayed an increasing number of daily active users. However, Asian social networks, such as WeChat and Douyin, have also gained immense popularity in the Asia-Pacific region by offering content and services tailored to APAC preferences. Acting not only as a messaging and social media service, WeChat is a platform for online shopping and payment services. The social networking site, owned by Tencent, was the sixth most used social media platform globally. A connected region The Asia-Pacific region has gone through a technological evolution and alongside the region, its citizens have willingly adopted this change. This is conveyed through the internet penetration rate, which has more than doubled since 2010 in Asia. A better internet infrastructure has catalyzed the emergence of social media throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

TikTok reported reaching 1 billion monthly active users in September 2021, becoming the most recent online platform to reach this milestone. It took the social network 5.1 years to cross 1 billion MAU. Facebook Messenger reached the same number of monthly active users within 4.9 years and remains the fastest social network worldwide to have done so. Facebook, the first social network with 1 billion monthly active users, took 8.7 years to reach this audience in 2013.

Truth Social, the Trump-owned social media platform, started trading publicly on March 26, 2024. The social network has fewer users and a lower valuation than Meta Platforms, X (formerly Twitter), and Pinterest did at their initial public offerings. The market capitalization of Truth Social when it went public was estimated to be six billion dollars, with an estimated five million monthly active users.

As of January 2025, ** percent of social media users in the United States aged 40 to 49 years were users of Facebook, as were ** percent of ** to ** year olds in the country. Overall, ** percent of those aged 18 to 29 years were using Instagram in the U.S. The social media market in the United States The number of social media users in the United States has shown continuous growth in the past years, and it is forecast to continue increasing to reach *** million users in 2029. As of 2023, the social network user penetration in the United States amounted to an impressive ***** percent, meaning that more than nine in ten people in the country engaged with online platforms. Furthermore, Facebook was by far the most popular social media platform in the United States, accounting for ** percent of all social media visits in 2023, followed by Pinterest with **** percent of visits. The global social media landscape As of April 2024, **** billion people were social media users, accounting for **** percent of the world’s population. Northern Europe was the region with the highest social media penetration rate with a reach of **** percent, followed by Western Europe with **** percent and Eastern Asia **** percent. In contrast, less than one in ten people in Middle Africa used social networks. Facebook’s popularity is not limited to the United States: this network leads the market on a global scale, and it accumulated more than three billion monthly active users (MAU) as of 2024, which is far more any other social media platform. YouTube, Instagram, and WhatsApp followed, all with *** billion or more MAU.

With roughly three billion monthly active users as of the second quarter of 2023, Facebook is the most used online social network worldwide. The platform surpassed two billion active users in the second quarter of 2017, taking just over 13 years to reach this milestone. In comparison, Meta-owned Instagram took 11.2 years, and Google’s YouTube took just over 14 years to achieve this landmark. As of January 2022, Facebook’s leading audience base was in India, with almost 330 million users whilst the United States ranked second with an approximate total of 179 million users. The platform also finds remarkable popularity in Indonesia and Brazil. Social Media usage in the United States In January 2021, Facebook was the platform on which users in the United States spent the most time per day. The average time spent on Facebook was 33 minutes, followed by TikTok with 32 minutes and Twitter with 31 daily minutes. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, all major social media platforms saw an increase in daily usage, which then either plateaued or decreased in 2021. At the end of 2021, over a quarter of all Facebook users in the United States belonged to the 25 to 34 year age group and 18.2 percent of users were in the 35 to 44 year age group. In general, Facebook users were more likely to be female. Meta Platforms Meta is Facebook’s recently renamed parent company and had a grand total of 3.59 billion core product users by the final quarter of 2021. Other Meta products include Instagram, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Oculus – Meta’s virtual reality subsidiary which produces VR headsets. In 2021, Meta's revenue amounted to 117 billion US dollars, up from around 86 billion U.S. dollars in the previous financial year.

This statistic shows the number of active mobile social media users in specific Asia-Pacific countries from 2017 to 2019. During the most recently measured period, *** million users in Indonesia accessed online services via mobile device, making it the third-largest mobile social media market in Asia-Pacific. Second-ranked India accounted for *** million mobile social network users. China was ranked first, with more than *********** mobile social media users.

This statistic gives information on the most popular multi-platform social networks in the United States as of October 2018. During that month, Facebook was ranked first with almost 205 monthly active U.S. users. Facebook Messenger was ranked third in terms of MAU but came first in regards of mobile-only users.

In the third quarter of 2021, the number of monthly active users (MAU) of TikTok in the Asia-Pacific region increased by *** percent compared to the corresponding quarter of 2020. The Middle East/North Africa region followed with a growth of ***** percent year-over-year. Latin America saw an increase of **** percent in TikTok MAU in the evaluated period. The short-form video platform TikTok was first launched as Douyin in China, and is owned by Chinese company ByteDance.

In 2021, there were 1.21 billion monthly active users of Meta's Instagram, making up over 28 percent of the world's internet users. By 2025, it has been forecast that there will be 1.44 billion monthly active users of the social media platform, which would account for 31.2 percent of global internet users.

How popular is Instagram?

Instagram, as of January 2022, was the fourth most popular social media platform in the world in terms of user numbers. YouTube and WhatsApp ranked in second and third place, respectively, whilst Facebook remained the most popular, with almost three billion monthly active users worldwide.

India had the largest number of Instagram users as of January 2022, with a total of over 230 million users in the country. The second-largest Instagram audience could be found in the United States, with almost 160 million people subscribing to the photo and video sharing app.

Gen Z and Instagram

As of September 2021, Gen Z users in the United States spent an average of five hours per week on Instagram. Although Instagram ranked third in terms of hours per week spent on the platform, Gen Z users spent considerably more time on TikTok, amounting to a weekly average of over 10 hours being spent on the mobile-first video app.

Most followed accounts on Instagram

As of May 2022, Instagram’s own account had 504.37 million followers. In terms of celebrities, Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo (@chistiano) had over 440.41 million followers on the social network. Moreover, the average media value of an Instagram post by Ronaldo was over 985,000 U.S. dollars.

The most liked post on Instagram as of May 2022 was Photo of an Egg, which was posted in 2019 by the account @world_record_egg. Photo of an Egg has not only exceeded 55 million likes on the platform, but it also has nearly 3.5 million comments, and the account itself has over 4.5 million Instagram followers. After mysterious posts published by the account, World Record Egg revealed itself as part of a mental health campaign aimed at the difficulties and demands of using social media.

How does Truth Social compare to other social media platforms? There are around 2 million active Truth Social users.

As of March 2021, female users accounted for **** percent of Pinterest's active app user accounts in the United States. According to App Ape, male users only accounted for **** percent of the visual content app's user base on the Android platform.

In 2023, it was estimated that Reddit had a little over *********** monthly active users (MAU), up by over ** percent compared to the previous year. Reddit, which was launched in 2005, is a social media and discussion platform known for its engaged communities, called subreddits. Not many of the communities or "subreddits" on the platform are closed - therefor they can be accessed by unregistered users. In December 2023, the news aggregator and social platform counted over *********** visits to its website.

As of December 2022, X/Twitter's audience accounted for over *** million monthly active users worldwide. This figure was projected to ******** to approximately *** million by 2024, a ******* of around **** percent compared to 2022.

We've put together a list of the latest Truth Social statistics so you can see who uses the platform and whether or not Truth Social is likely to become a dominant social media network in the future.

As of March 2021, users in their 20s accounted for ** percent of Snapchat's active user accounts in the United States. According to App Ape, users aged 10 to 19 years were the second-largest user group, accounting for ** percent of the photo sharing app's user base on the Android platform.

As of the third quarter of 2025, Pinterest had a total of *** million monthly active users (MAUs) in the United States and Canada. For Europe, the image-based social media platform had *** million MAUs. Overall, for the rest of the world, there were *** million MAUs in Q3 2025.