A list of all the most popular social networks, what they are created for and estimated visitors per month .
A social network is a site that allows
you to connect, in some way, with other web site users, sharing with them some
content types, which can be text, photos, videos, audio, documents . It often
allows you to decide the level of privacy of shared materials, whether they are
public or "private", or intended for a limited number of users. In
the broader sense, therefore, there are a lot of sites with social functions.
1. Facebook
Estimated visitors per month: 1.1
billion
Address: www.facebook.com
What's Facebook:
Let's start this list of the best social networks with the king. Facebook is
the most popular social network in the world and allows you to create profiles,
upload photos and videos, send messages, and keep in touch with friends,
family, and colleagues. Available in 37 different languages, it has several
functions, such as:
Facebook groups: allow members to group around common interests and interact
with each other
Events: allow members to advertise an
event, invite guests, and track how many they are.
Pages: Create and promote public pages
built around a certain subject, company or person.
Personal profile: what allows you to interact, chat, comment, publish, share
content ... the heart of the platform.
2. YouTube
Estimated visitors per month: 1
billion
Address: www.youtube.com
What is YouTube: It is a social network where people can share videos,
comment on videos, build channels and watch others. But also the second largest
search engine in the world, used by young people to do searches instead of
doing it on Google. To watch a video you do not have to be registered, just to
rate it, comment it or upload it yourself. Created in 2005, it was purchased by
Google in 2oo6.
3. Twitter
Estimated visitors per month: 310
million
Address: www.twitter.com
What is Twitter: is a social network that offers a microblogging service
for registered users. Short posts of users are called tweets. Twitter members
can help other users and interact with them through platforms and devices.
Followed users can be organized into
lists and lists can be shared with other users. By default, tweets are public.
4. LinkedIn
Estimated visitors per month: 255
million
Address: www.linkedin.com
What is LinkedIn: is a social network specifically designed for those who
are interested in doing business. The goal of the site is to register members
who share with others their own work experiences, their skills, and topics from the point of view of work. For this reason,
the user page has the skills of the other users in the foreground, and a great
deal of space is reserved for the present and past experience. Throughout and
all the profile page could replace a curriculum. It is of great importance
groups, aggregators of people with similar
5. Pinterest
Estimated visitors per month: 100
million
Address: www.pinterest.com
What is Pinterest: is a site that aims
to share images that are on the web. The concept is: do you see an image you
like? Append (pin it!) To one of your message boards. You can follow other
users, comment on their pins, and "re-pinnate" that shared by others.
6. Google Plus +
Estimated visitors per month: 120 million
Address: plus.google.com
What is Google Plus +: This is
Google's social network, which grew very much in the first months since launch
(2011) but with a shaky use by users. As other social let you share texts, photos, links, videos, gather users within
thematic groups. The feature that distinguishes it from the others is the
circles, a system with which privacy and sharing of content and experience are
handled.
7. Tumblr
Estimated visitors per month: 110
million
Address: www.tumblr.com
What is Tumblr: is a microblogging site and social network
created by David Karp in 2007, purchased by Yahoo in 2013. The service allows
users to post multimedia content, images,
and text in the form of blog-shorts. The blog posts that a user chose to follow
will appear in the user's dashboard stream. Blogs can also become private and
give access only to certain people.
8. Instagram
Estimated visitors per month: 500
million
Address: www.instagram.com
What is Instagram: Instagram is an app
for sharing photos and short videos. Its use is simple: you sign up, post
photos and videos, comment on it, and you like the "like" pictures of
others. Its peculiar feature is the #Hashtag's pushed use to
"catalog" the photos, let others see it, or follow a particular
trend. Purchased from Facebook, it shares the advertising ad management system.
9. Reddit
Estimated visitors per month: 85
million
Address: www.reddit.com
What is Reddit: is a social news aggregator site, voting web content and
discussions. Participants in the community can send votes and post in different
sessions. Submissions with the most positive votes appear above the category
page. Content is organized in areas called "subreddit".
10. VKontakte
Estimated visitors per month: 80
million
Address: www.vk.com
What is VKontakte: With its headquarters in St. Petersburg, it is in effect
the largest European social networking service. Though it is available in
different languages, the basis for its success is among those who speak Russian
and live in Russia and the former Soviet bloc countries. VK allows users to
send messages publicly or privately, create groups, public pages, events, share
and tag images, audio, video, and play on online applications
11. Flickr
Estimated visitors per month: 65
million
Address: www.flickr.com
What is Flickr? Let's start from how
it is pronounced, "flicker", as it seems to be one of the main issues
related to this site. Flickr is a site for image and video hosting, created by
Ludicorp in 2004 and purchased by Yahoo in 2005. The aim is to offer a showcase
for photo shooters and build an online community of photo enthusiasts. Photos
can be incorporated into their blogs and social media.
12. Vine
Estimated visitors per month: 42
million
Address: www.vine.com
What is Vine: is a short video sharing service
that users can turn into 6-second video clips that go loop. Created in 2012 and
purchased before launch by Twitter, to merge its micro-blogging text with
micro-video. In October 2016 Twitter announced the end of the service even
though it will continue to exist as a web site to store video products.
13. Meetup
Visitors estimated per month: 40 million
Address: www.meetup.com
Meetup: The goal of this social network is to facilitate the meeting of people who are in different cities or continents. Allows people to gather in groups around common interests. It was created after the attacks of September 11, 2011, with the inspiration of what New yorkers did in the days and months after that event that made "communities" around what had happened. In Italy, it has become one of the most popular social networks because it is used by the 5 Star Movement as a platform for organizing territorial groups.
Meetup: The goal of this social network is to facilitate the meeting of people who are in different cities or continents. Allows people to gather in groups around common interests. It was created after the attacks of September 11, 2011, with the inspiration of what New yorkers did in the days and months after that event that made "communities" around what had happened. In Italy, it has become one of the most popular social networks because it is used by the 5 Star Movement as a platform for organizing territorial groups.
14. Ask.fm
Estimated visitors per month: 37
million
Address: www.ask.fm
What is Ask.fm:
is a social network created in Latvia by Klaves Sinka in Latvia based on the
"question-answer" interaction. " Fm " stands for "For
Me", so the literal meaning of the name is " Ask For Me ". You
ask questions by writing directly to the profile of other members, both in
anonymous and public sources. You can also follow other people without them
knowing. People who sign up must be over 13 years old, no one monitors what is
written on the site, and is often used to go around and bargain with other
15. ClassMates
Estimated visitors per month: 15
million
Address: www.classmates.com
What is Classmate: is a social network
founded in 1995 by Randy Conrads to help classmates and colleagues who had
attended the same kindergarten, elementary school, high school, universities,
or who had worked in the same company to find and stay in touch. In 2010, there
was a more sentimental and nostalgic turning, giving the opportunity to share
music, movie trailers, photo pictures to walk along the avenue of memories. To
have access to all the advantages presented by Classmate you have to buy a Gold
Plan.
16.Badoo
Estimated visitors per month: 200 Million
Address: www.badoo.com
Badoo,
which is the most used of friendship sites, is preferred by people who can not
easily give up their habits. The social media site, which
brings together millions of people, is
also important in terms of cultural exchange. It was founded and launched in
November 2006 by Andrey Andreev a Russian entrepreneur.
Having its headquarters
in Soho, London. it the world's most widely used dating network to
date operating in 190 countries and is available in 47 different
languages. Worldwide over 340 million people have signed up to the Social
network
17.MySpace
Estimated visitors per month: 50 Million
Address:
www.myspace.com
It
is a social platform especially used by people who are related to music. It allows you to share photos, videos,
and music. You can chat with your friends, discover lots of music, and
listen. The network is available in 14 different languages. Its headquarters is in Beverly Hills, California United States. The company is owned
by Viant Technology and founded by Chris De Wolfe Tom Anderson and Jon Hart. It
was lunched on 1 August 2003
18.Last.fm
Genre:
Online Music Sharing Site.
Estimated visitors per month: 35 Million
Address:
www.last.fm
Last.fm, It is a high quality music discovery site that you can enter in
your country, is not only a simple online radio, it is a
very extensive social network that allows its users to share their own music. You can also make new
friendships on the site. Users can easily find the songs they want and listen to radio broadcasts in the kind
of music they like. Compatibility with popular players such as Winamp and
Windows Media Player makes Last.fm available to a very large segment.
19.Viber
Estimated visitors per month: 300 million
Address.www.viber.com
It is an instant messaging and voice over IP (VoIP) application developed and distributed by Israeli company Viber Media. A Japanese multinational company called the Rakuten Company acquired it. In addition to instant messaging, users can share pictures, videos, and multimedia voicemails by sending files between them. In December 2016, Viber had 800 million registered users.
20.Fotolog
Estimated visitors per month: 20 Million
Address: www.Fotolog.com
Founded
in 2002, Fotolog gives users the opportunity to create photo diary. It is
one of the most important sites in photo sharing. It was Launched in May 2002, the
site f generates over 3 billion pageviews each month
21.LiveJournal
Estimated visitors per month: 20 Million
Address:
www.livejournal.com
With
LiveJournal. Is a Russian social networking service where users can
keep a blog, journal or diary. It is possible to create
daily pages, travel notes, and
blogs. In addition, users can optimize their blogs as they wish. It was
started on April 15, 1999, by American
programmer Brad Fitzpatrick but owned by SUP Media. It available in 33 languages.
22.
Xing
Estimated visitors per month: 12 Million
Address:
www.xing.com
Xing
is a social media site that has users from all over the
world because it is supported by 17 different languages, giving the opportunity
to create professional links to company owners and employees. It is a site that employers and job seekers use more
often. You can find business contacts, organize events, get information
about your business, and examine companies. It's not a good site to make
friends with people you do not know.
23.StumbleUpon
Estimated visitors per month: 25 Million
Address:
www.stumbleupon.com
StumbleUpon,
which allows people to discover new things thanks to the ratings they give to
their web sites, offers everything that is popular on the internet. In
addition, while people are surfing the web, they can share pages practically on
social networks. Surfing the Internet has brought a whole new meaning to the
phrase. It is a blessing to someone who wants to discover new
sites. It's a site that finds sites that stand out for your interests,
shows you which sites your friends recommend to you, and makes new friendships
24. DeviantART
Genre:
Social Art Sharing Site.
Estimated visitors per month: 25 Million
Address:www.deviantart.com
DeviantArt,
which allows users to share social artifacts with whatever they have created,
is one of the shared sites actively used by graphic designers and
photographers. More than 140,000 shares are shared daily in DeviantArt,
where photo sharing is done in general. In addition, users can sell on
graphic design or photo output pages.
25. Blogger
Type: Blog
Address:www.blogger.com
Blogger offers users the ability to
manage multiple blog sites through a single account and has users from
different countries. Although it has lower accessibility compared
to WordPress, it's still preferred because it supports AdSense ads.
26.My Yahoo
Type: Social Network Site
Estimated visitors per month: 40
Million
Address:www.my.yahoo.com
Yahoo offers a wide range of sharing
possibilities, from photo and video to weather and daily horoscope
interpretations, allowing people to actively participate on a single page. It one of the largest e-mail
services in the world, works like Facebook. You can chat, look at your
daily routine, add friends, discover new music, play games, and even find
work. Numerous different Yahoo! service. It is a huge site that
700 million people visit every month.
27.Technorati
Type: Blog Search Network
Estimated visitors per month: 112
Million Blog
Address:www.technorati.com
The social media site,
which brings together almost all of the social networks with more than 250
million tagged social media content, allows publishers to create their own
indexes. It scans all blogs on the
Internet and gives you the result you are looking for. Other than that, if
you are a blog owner you can increase your hit by adding your own blog.
28.SlideShare
Type: File Sharing Network
Estimated visitors per month: 16
Million
Address:www.slideshare.com
SlideShare, a Web 2.0-based
file-sharing network, was listed on the
2010 "Top 10 Educational and e-Learning Tools in the World"
list. PDF; SlideShare users can share Office documents
like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
and view all this content online.
29.Vimeo
Type: Video Share Site
Estimated visitors per month: 22
Million
Address:www.vimeo.com
Vimeo, the YouTube follower of video
sharing, has 100 million visits per month. Due to the content protection
system, Vimeo is a powerful social sharing site
with HTML5 support.
30.Photobucket
Type: Photo / Video Sharing Network
Estimated visitors per month: 100
Million
Address.www.photobucket.com
Photobucket, which Facebook
and Twitter users also use for visual acquisition, contains over 10
billion visuals. With links to forums, sites,
and social media accounts, millions of people can meet in a single network.
31.FriendFeed
Type: Social Imaging / Network Site
Estimated visitors per month: 1
Million
Address:www.friendfreed.com
FriendFeed, which owns Facebook, does
not see the expected interest, but it has a functional use as it allows many
social media tools to be tracked in a single name. FriendFeed
users; social bookmarking, social
media reporting, microblog sharing, RSS / Atom feed.
32.Dailymotion
Type: Video Share Site
Estimated visitors per month: 115
Million
Address: www.dailymotion.com
A France-based video sharing platform
with HTML5 support. Video uploading, group creation, sharing
via social media tools now offers all popular video sharing opportunities.
35.MyLife
Type: Social Network Site
Estimated visitors per month: 30
Million
Address: www.mylife.com
Reflecting the idea of
viewing an entire life through a single social media tool, Mylife offers multi-sharing between
users. Using a single tool to view sharing of circles on
Facebook, Tweeter, Google+, LinkedIn
and other social media accounts, Mylife makes it easy to stay in touch with all
social media by signing in to one place.
36.Netlog
Type: Social Network Site
Estimated visitors per month: 95
Million
Address: www.netlog.com
Users have a web page managed by them
and through this page, they can publish
their blogs, photos and videos, music lists.
37. Formspring
Type: Social Network Site
Estimated visitors per month: 290
Million
Address: www.formspring.com
Formspring, with its ability to ask
questions and follow, has many users in the world as a fun sharing platform.
38. Tagged
Type: Social Network Site
Estimated visitors per month: 100
Million
Address: www.tagged.com
Tagged with other social
media tools such as content creation, location reporting, photo sharing,
attracts attention with its 100 million users. The best feature is that it
allows you to see who is visiting your profile page.
39. Hi5.
Type: Social Network Site
Estimated visitors per month: 47
Million
Address: www.hi5.com
A
friend's site that received 47 million visitors per month, purchased by another
Friend site called Tagged. A site where you can play lots of games and
find friends. It is mostly used in Central America and South
America. Having it headquarters based in San Francisco, California. Founded
in 2004.
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40.
Digg.
Type: Social Network Site
Estimated visitors per month: 4
Million
Address: www.digg.com
One
of the leading sites in the social bookmarking category that receives 4 million
unique visitors from the US only per month. When you find a good link on
the internet you share here with followers. It is a site where new is
shared more in the field of technology. But recently, this site has been a
bit more backwards with the bombing of Twitter. Of course, it continues to
renew itself, which means that the internet world will not be erased yet.
41.
Delicious
Type: social
bookmarking Site
Estimated visitors per month: 8.Million
Address: www.deliciouse.com
What is Social Bookmarking? Whatever browser we use, regardless
of what level of internet users we all add some internet sites to favorites. Delicious
will sort these sites you have added and share them with your
followers. You are viewing the favorite websites of the users you
follow.
42.Whatsapp
Estimated visitors per month: 1 billion
Address:www.whatsapp.com
Messenger is a multiplatform instant
messaging client for smartphones, PCs and tablets. Launched in January 2010,
WhatsApp Inc. The application uses the internet to make voice
calls, send pictures, text messages,
documents, GIF, audio and video
messages to other users of the application is. The application was acquired by
Facebook on 19 February 2004 for approximately $ 19.3 billion. Over 1 billion
people use the service to communicate with their customers, love ones friends
and family.