Social Media Ranked 20 with features of the top 7
The most popular social media
Facebook: Most popular Social media App 2020
Facebook is a popular social media that comes first among the top 20 social media. An American company, Facebook 2004 owned this social media. About 2740 million people use this networking site presently. The feature of a convenient way of connecting with friends, sharing photos, videos, and the marketplace on Facebook has made it more popular among users.
Features of Facebook
Facebook events:
- Notifies the event around you
social plugins:
- Helps to put your views and comments on different sites
Embedded- in- post:
- Fetches and delivers the linked content in the related post.
Messages:
- Sending instant messages, voice calls, and video chat
Reactions:
- React to your feeling towards the post
News Feeds:
- Notifies about the activities like reactions, comments, and most of the list of friends
Photos:
- Uploading the pictures, stories, and reactions to it
YouTube
Youtube is social media with the motive to give everyone a voice. An American company Google has developed it. This media ensures the freedom of every people in the world for Expression, Information, and Opportunity. About 2000 million users are monthly active users on YouTube with 3 billion monthly unique visitors. so, It is at second to the top 20 social media.
Features of YouTube
Video Uploads:
- Uploading videos to the channel
Playlist Creation:
- arranging the videos of the channel by creating a playlist
Add collaborators to the playlist:
- adding Collaborators helps to enhance and specify the content in the playlist.
Custom thumbnails:
- customizing the thumbnails makes the video more informative in view.
Live video streaming:
- recording and broadcasting the media in real-time.
appealing content ID claims:
- secure the ownership of the content
WhatsApp: This social media is acquired by Facebook since 2014
WhatsApp is a cross-platform messaging owned by the Facebook company. The user uses this social media for sending text messages, voice messages sharing images and documents. About 2000 million users are monthly active users in the media. It also has great reviews. So, WhatApps is in the third position in the top 20 social media.
Features of WhatsApp
Simple, Reliable messaging:
- Uses device internet connection to send messages and avoid SMS fees
Group Chat:
- keep in touch with friends and the group of people
- And Share messages, photos, and videos
- maximum number of group members 256
speak freely in Voice and Video Calls.
WhatsApp on the web and Desktop:
- sync all the chats to the desktop app and chat on any convenient device.
Document sharing:
- Share documents without email or file-sharing apps.
Messenger: Facebook-owned social media app
Messenger is also the social media owned by the Facebook company. It is popular for instant messaging, sharing photos, videos, and group chats. It is easy to create an account via. Facebook account or telephone number. So, it is more convenient to use. About 1300 million users are active in a month. It is widespread and highly reviewed by users. For this reason, the messenger is in the third position of widely used social media.
Features of messenger
Transfer files:
- the web version of the app allows sharing of documents, images, and videos.
Creating Stories:
- creating stories with a short collection of videos, pictures, and even text.
Message:
- One can send text, voice, and even video messages.
Create a poll:
- poll to get a group decision.
Messenger as an SMS app:
- can use as the default SMS app.
WeChat: Multi-purpose Social media
WeChat is a social media application developed by Tencent company of China in 2011. It is a messaging app along with an integrated mobile payment system and others. So, It is a multi-purpose social media. Presently, it has about 1203 million monthly active users.
Features of WeChat
Messaging and calling
- Exchange of text, voice message and broadcast messaging
- Also, it Supports video calls, voice calls, and conference calls
Share location
- Share the location with your friend and relatives
- And Direct to geo-localized ad content
Scan QR code
- Scan to add a new friend
- Similarly, Used to redirect users to any companies product
Search engine
- Explore content on social networking
Newsfeed
- Newsfeed of all the moments posted like images, shared music, and comment
- Also, WeChat Newsfeed can be posted on Facebook and Twitter.
Finance related features
- E-Wallet: connect the bank account and gives information about the account
- WeChat pay: helps in making payments by scanning codes using a smartphone
- Loans: operated in connection with WeBank and users can borrow up to RMB. 300,000 without any collateral.
- Mobile Top-up: Top-up balance to mobile phones so that no need to waste time going to the nearest phone company.
Services and operators
- Feature with third-party services accessible through social networking, like Booking rail, flight tickets and taxis, Movie tickets, Hotels, and housing.
Instagram: This social media is acquired by Facebook since 2012
Instagram is developed by an American company in 2010. Later, Facebook company, United State, owned Instagram in 2012. The users can create and share photos, stories, and videos with friends and followers using this social media. Helping users to connect with friends conveniently, about 1000 million are monthly active users.
Features of Instagram
Unlock creativity with reels
- Express yourself with short, fun videos with easy-to-use text, AR filters, and audio
- Also, upload videos from your gallery.
- Record hands-free, and adjust speed for video and audio with help of a timmer.
- Ultimately, Discover the best of an emerging culture.
- Explore the new Reels and share moments as they happen-or find reels in someone's profile.
- Also, Send reels you like to friends in Messenger, or share them with Stories.
- Besides, Magnify your ideas with audio from the music library, recorded original audio, and even your unique sound by adding Voiceover to clips.
Share Stories
- 10-second-max photos and videos shared into a slideshow
- Post disappears after 1 day( 24 hours)
- Moreover, Decorate photos with drawings, text, emojis, and swipeable colour filters
- Also, Save individual Story slides before or after posting them
- Thereafter, To reply to any Story one can swipe up, and reply via. Instagram Direct private messages.
- Also, Know the followers and others who viewed the stories posted
Messenger
- Share text, images, and videos via Instagram direct messages.
- Also, Create a group and bond with friends, relatives, and followers.
IGTV
- A long-form, immersive video.
- Browse videos based on your interests.
- Also, Make it easy to discover and watch videos from followed Creators or creators whom you may follow.
- Like, comment, or share IGTV videos with friends, relatives, and followers.
- Last of all, easier to connect with your audience, and reach more people.
Advertising, Shopping, and Business
- Discover and buy products from brands and creators you love
- Shop on Instagram by checking out a wish list, or Facebook pay
- In short, is an ideal place for businesses to connect with a community of shoppers.
Search and Explore
- Magnifying glass icon to go to the search and explore tab.
- Besides Search top posts according to their popularity and timeliness, people on Instagram, Search by tags (hashtags), and places with location tags.
TikTok
TikTok is developed by ByteDance Company in 2016. It is a video-sharing application. TikTok is social media for creating sharing and discovering short music videos. Secondly, it is the international version of Douyin. Presently, it is the most entertaining application throughout the world. So, social media is widely popular. There are 800 million active users.
QQ is a web portal and instant messaging software service. The Chinese tech giant Tencent developed this social media in 1999. It offers many services. Including the services provide group chat and voice chat, online social games, music, movies, and shopping. QQ is ranked in the fifth position on the most visited website in the world. Presently, 659 million active monthly users are recorded and there are 267 million daily active users.
Vkontakte
Vkontakte is a Russian online social media. This application is used to message each other, create groups, and sharing images, and videos and play browser-based games. Presently, there are 593 monthly active users.
The Chinese company Sina developed the social media "Weibo" in 2009. It is in the tenth position among active users. Presently, there are 550 million monthly active users, and 241 million daily active users.
Qzone
The Chinese Company Tencent developed Qzone in 2005. It is a social networking website. Besides, it allows users to write blogs sharing photos, movies, and music. There are about 517 million active users in a month.
Snapchat
Snapchat is an American messaging application. The Snap Inc. company has developed this social media. However, the messages and pictures are available for a short period. Presently, there are 433 million monthly active users with 229 daily active users.
An American Company Reddit has developed this social media in 2005. It is a website with the features of social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion forums. Secondly, the registered members or users can post the content with text, links, and pictures here. This website is in the seventeenth position by the most visited website in the world since there are 430 million active users.
Douyin
A Bytedance company in china has developed this social media in 2016. The user uses this media for creating sharing and discovering short music videos widely in China. Also, the international version of it is widely popular as TikTok. Presently, there are 400 million active users in a month.
Telegram
The UAE company, Telegram has created this social media in 2013. The basic principle of Telegram is to share news views via messages, and video calls. It is also used for sharing videos, images, and other multimedia. Presently, there are 400 million active users.
Pinterest is an American company that developed this social media in 2009 to save and discover ideas. Besides, this application uses text, pictures, small videos and animation. There are 400 million active users.
Kuaishou
Beijing Kuaishou Technology Company of China has developed "Kuaishou" social media in 2011. It is a video-sharing application. It is also listed as the most downloaded app in the market of Google Play and the Apple App Store. There are 400 million active users.
Odnoklassniki
The Russian internet company Mail.ru has developed Odnoklassniki. It is a social networking service. Russia and former Soviet Republics mainly use this social media. Presently, there are 330 million active users and 45 daily unique visitors.
Twitter is an American company that developed Twitter in 2006. This social media is a microblogging and social networking service. Twitter users also can post and interact with messages. Presently, there are 330 million monthly active users and 145 daily active users.
Skypes: Top 20th Social Media App
Skype is a telecommunications application developed by Microsoft Company, Luxembourg. Video calls and voice calls are their major services. It also provides instant messaging services. Skype is also a convenient way to transfer text, images, audio, and videos. It has 300 million monthly active users and 40 million daily active users.
In conclusion,
Social media are ranked based on their users and popularity. They are here based on the research I made on them. So, there might be some changes on the list as per changes in the data in the future.
