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The internet has made the world smaller. Updated Information
is at our fingertips with the help of social networking. We can even more
access to news and opinions than ever before. It's now entirely common to hear
someone ask you to share something on Google+ or to receive breaking news via
Twitter on your phone. The world has been changing rapidly.
Top 10 Most Popular Social Networking Sites
Facebook
Facebook was founded in 2004, its mission is to give people
the power to share and make the world more open and connected. People use
Facebook to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what’s going on
in the world, and to share and express what matters to them.
Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg
with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University
students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
The founders had initially limited the website's membership to Harvard
students, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston
area, the Ivy League, and Stanford
University. It gradually
added support for students at various other universities and later to their
high-school students. Now It allows
anyone who claims to be at least 13 years old worldwide to become a registered
user of the website, although proof is not required.
Facebook
900,000,000 -
Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
2 - Alexa Rank October 1, 2014.
2. Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking service that enables
users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets".
Registered users can read and post tweets, but unregistered
users can only read them. Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMS,
or mobile device app. Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco and has more than 25 offices
around the world.
Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan
Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass and by July 2006 the site was launched. The
service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with more than 100 million users
above.
Twitter
310,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly
8 - Alexa Rank October 1, 2014.
3. LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a
business-oriented social networking service. Founded in December 2002 and
launched on May 5, 2003. It is mainly used for professional networking. In
2006, LinkedIn increased to 20 million viewers above. LinkedIn reports more
than 259 million acquired users in more than 200 countries and territories.
The site is available in 20 languages
LinkedIn
255,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly
9 - Alexa Rank
October 1, 2014.
4. Pinterest
Pinterest is a web and mobile application company that offers
a visual discovery, collection, sharing, and storage tool. Users create and
share the collections of visual bookmarks (boards). The boards are created
through a user selecting an item, page, website, etc. and pinning it to an
existing or newly created board. Users save and share pins from multiple
resources onto the boards based on a plethora of criteria, e.g., similar
characteristics, a theme, birthday parties, planning a vacation, writing a
book, interior decorating, holidays. Boards can develop projects, organize
events, or save pictures and data together. The site was founded by Ben
Silbermann, Paul Sciarra and Evan Sharp. It is managed by Cold Brew Labs and
funded by a small group of entrepreneurs and investors.
Pinterest
250,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
26 - Alexa Rank
October 1, 2014.
5 Google+
Google+ is a social
networking and identity service that is owned and operated by Google Inc.
Google has described Google+ as a "social layer" that enhances many
of its online properties, and that it is not simply a social networking
website, but also an authorship tool that associates web-content directly with
its owner/author. It is the 5th largest social networking site in the world.
Google Plus+
120,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly
6. Tumblr
Tumblr is a micro blogging platform and social networking
website founded by David Karp and owned by Yahoo Inc. The service allows users
to post multimedia and other content to a short form blog. Users can follow
other users' blogs, as well as make their blogs private. Most of the website's
features are accessed from the "dashboard" interface, where the
option to post content and posts of followed blogs appear.
Tumblr
110,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
34 - Alexa Rank October 1, 2014.
7. Instagram
Instagram is an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing
and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and
videos, and share them on a variety of social networking platforms, such as Facebook,
Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr. A distinctive feature is that it confines photos to
a square shape, similar to Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid images, in contrast to
the 4:3 aspect ratio typically used by mobile device cameras. Users can also
apply digital filters to their images. The maximum duration for Instagram
videos is 15 seconds.
Instagram
100,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly
36 - Alexa Rank October 1, 2014.
8. VK
VK originally VKontakte, is the largest Russian social
networking service in Europe. It is available
in several languages, but particularly popular among Russian-speaking users
around the world, especially in Russia,
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
and Ukraine.
Like other social networks, VK allows users to message contacts publicly or
privately, create groups, public pages and events, share and tag images, audio
and video, and play browser-based games.
VK
80,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly
21 - Alexa Rank
October 1, 2014.
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9. Flickr
Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, and
web services suite that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo
in 2005. Besides being a popular website for users to share and embed personal
photographs, and effectively an online community, the service is widely used by
photo researchers and by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and
social media.
Flickr
5,000,000 - Estimated
Unique Monthly Visitors
91 - Alexa Rank
October 1, 2014.
10.Vine
Vine is a short-form video sharing service. Founded in June
2012, it was acquired by micro blogging website Twitter in October 2012, just
prior to its official launch. The service allows users to record and edit
six-second long looping video clips, and revine. Ravine is where users can
share other people’s posts with followers. Some Vines are revined automatically
based on what is popular. The videos can be then published through Vine's
social network and shared on other services such as Facebook and Twitter.
Vine's app can also be used to browse through videos posted by other users,
along with groups of videos by theme, and trending videos.
Vine
42,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors
1,172 - Alexa Rank
October 1, 2014.
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