Most Popular Social Media Platforms 1997 - 2020
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- Опубликовано: 17 май 2020
- In this data visualization video I look at the most popular social media networks based on active accounts during that time. I also did not include streaming video platforms such as RUclips and Twitch, I will post those in a different video.
These stats come from Wikipedia, archive.org and from Google Books searches. I did not include those platforms that did not report stats.I also reduced the numbers to take into account fake and duplicate accounts. Some of the data includes approximate numbers as the data available skipped years.
In the video I included screenshots of certain platforms from the list as they looked during that particular year. The platform thumbnails:
1997 - Bolt
Founded as a community for teens
1998 - Classmates
Biggest collection of yearbooks online
1999 - Open Diary
Introduced commenting and privacy settings
2000 - theGlobe
2001 - PlanetAll
Bought and killed by Amazon
2002 - LiveJournal
Still Popular in Russia for Microblogging
2003 - MySpace
2004 - Orkut
From Google, became popular in Brazil
2007 - Hi5
As popular as MySpace
2008 - VKontakte
Russian clone of Facebook
2009 - Facebook
Infamous update of news feed
2010 - Tagged
Originally a social network for teens
2011 - Tumblr
2012 - QZone
Social network from China
2013 - OK.ru
Russian social network
2014 - Reddit
2015 - Vine
Short looping video clips
2016 - Snapchat
2017 - WeChat
Reaches 1 million mini apps
2018 - TikTok
2019 - Facebook
Testing redesign
Thank you for watching. Let me know which platforms have been your favorite?
Anyone else shocked to see TikTok having more users than Instagram.
I’m so annoyed, why does everyone use it, it’s so bad and cringe, I will never get it
@@promo2099 same
ProMo that’s what I thought to, I downloaded it as a joke and it’s actually really good, it’s not like those cringy anime girls that were like on musically, musically was cringe af
I'm not cause China has more population and America and Europe togeder so ....
Not really, no.
Is nobody gonna question the fact that "RUclips" isn't there?
Everyone has RUclips
Maybe the guys who created this video thought RUclips will dominate and destroy the competition so better not add it.
because it's not social media. It
s a video sharing site.
But I think TikTok shouldn't be there because it's also a video sharing site.
it is social media
just like im things like skype and discord are chat apps and social media
How the heck is RUclips not on here? It’s a social media platform just like all those. It would be number one 💪 and TikTok is a joke
RUclips is God LEVEL. It wouldn't be fair for the others
love ur chAnnel!
Also yes i Agree
Facebook would still be number one. It has roughly 2.7 billion active monthly users, and RUclips only has approximately 2 billion active monthly users.
bro if youtube comes then there will be no space
Anyone old enough to remember the first rule of using the internet?
"You do not give any personal information on the internet."
How times have changed...
Yeah, I still don't give my personal information on any website, social media, etc, when creating an account, I've always given a fake date of birth, fake last name, fake address, etc. Unfortunately, that won't help anymore in a near future, the NWO was created to have full control and access to everyone's life.
First rule was don't go on the internet if parents are expecting a phone call.
@@vanargt502 Nobody forces you to use social medias so get off and you'll be free from "NWO" (big lol)
@@vanargt502 same here.
Seriously only fake name, fake id & fake pics 😂
The fact that Tumblr is higher than Twitter blows my mind.
I'm surprised how low Twitter was
Same for Reddit
nobody knows what Reddit is in my school
@@malut4503 Same.
I think these are cumulative numbers. Tumblr's active user count dropped a whole lot after the porn ban. Twitter has more active users in 2020 than tumblr.
Twitter is just a cesspool of weirdo's that can't help but vomit their vitriolic political views to other weirdo's like themselves.
Musical.ly was like "hold up im in the wrong outfit"
lmao
Lol
You mean Vine****
Can U a Discord iPhone X
lmfao .
It was so interesting to see live journal come and then go so quickly. Tons of people still use it but it’s such a small space
A lot of people left because of the new rules in 2017. Many went to Dreamwidth but the communities I knew it for (Science Fiction fandom) basically went to Facebook.
The teenager in me is pretty crushed that Bebo wasn't mentioned around those MySpace days
Having to put your top friends in order on your Bebo profile was brutal!
I forgot about Bebo! AOL bought it and messed up all our AOL profiles.
Also wondering where Xanga was during that time
I bet zoom would be on the top on 2020 lol
nah instagram twitter and tic toc
Zoom is not a website
Romario Barrett TikTok is cringe
@@Nihadology yes it is lmao
Nooby Tunes Tik Tok is huge, how can you judge an app that literally has videos about everything in this world?
Let me predict the future :
2021 : Facebook buying TikTok
Facebook buy everything unfortunately
Tik Tok is bought from Facebook before a many time ago
1. By facebook
2. By google
3. By microsoft
4. By tesla
😂
Nope Facebook aint buying chinese companies
No There is NO POINT, believe it or not but TikTok is not a profitable platform and doesn’t have ads, it would be a waste buying it and has a very high chance of dying out because it’s basically based off music unlike social media platforms where you just post or share things
1:58 redditors: yes yes yes yes!
2:31 redditors: no no no no!
Reddit banned me
I am impressed you know about Bolt!
I was an active member from 2000 to until it faced a copyright lawsuit and officially shut down.
My sister thought it was so strange to post your picture online!
I saw somewhere it was a video of American Idol back in the day and it said vote for your favourite contestant with Bolt and I’m like what’s that? Seems interesting how there was social media even before Myspace.
I also had bolt. I miss those days.
And where RUclips?! 🤔
some data sources does not assume RUclips as social media platform,it is seen as a video producer platform or smt like that
@@sinandemirhan5897 like other ott platforms like Netflix, amazon prime and hotstar?
@@abhishekraja7981 netflix isnt a social media app, the same thing as youtube
RUclips is a Social Media (and if it was included ,it would be 2nd with 2.7 Billion active users ,RUclips also grow faster than FaceBook)
Jailwait Discord 17 MINUTES Realme XT
4:25 The moment where all went wrong
Lol at this point we all knew we fucked up
Yes it's rating shows how popular that app is. Tiktok rating 2.9😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Ok boomer
This moment where much earlier - 2:33
Golden Eagle it is
The thing I find about most of these platforms is that the environment can be very toxic or useless and so you find many people deleting their account, but with platforms like Reddit, you never really leave, you either just change subreddit or come back to it another time.
Or Pinterest where it is basically a social media without the social part LOL
Very informative video! The graphics really help take it all in.
Everybody gansta until Facebook arrives.
...and they never recovered.
Hahahahah
@somewhatoriginal and seal thats what happen when you spend your whole day in it
somewhatoriginal and seal pffft stereotype
I mean tik tok is worser lmao
2:29
Reddit: "I used to Rule the world..."
Facebook: im about to ruin this mans whole career
Facebook : "... wait a year "
The fact I've never used reddit
Where is youtube, where is Twitch, where is Pornhub
reddit moment
You should keep updating this kind of information. Seems interesting.👍🏻
I'm surprised Tumblr is still that big, I wonder what percentage of those accounts are inactive now though. I heard a lot of users migrated to Twitter after Tumblr started censoring stuff and I'm assuming the majority of Tumblr users already had Twitter so this didn't lead to a massive amount of new Twitter accounts being created.
Tumblr is dead. Or a fucking zombie at the very least. I miss Tumblr.... good times.
I made an account on Tumblr to find fanart I loved.
Tumblr is pretty dead
It's extremely active if you know what sides of it to look at, honestly I've seen a boom in users again not too long ago as well. It's funny how people call us dead though lmao, we're still here
@@Zihette afaik only the part that most people heavily disliked is still alive.
@@BurgerKingHarkinian amen
It baffles me that Twitter is as low as it is considering that’s the social media outlet where celebrities careers can die right in front of our very eyes 😂.
It baffles me that Snapchat is lower than Twitter and Discord isn't far behind. Snap and Twitter i feel are way more popular than disc
I really thought Reddit would be higher
@@waliansari9467 reddit is not friendly to new users.... or anyone with a differing opinion to the original posters opinion. Reddit is shit for that
@The BOSS what
Because twitter users are minority...... but a very loud one.... like little kids
4:25 “AND THEN, THE DARK DAYS BEGAN”
I hate tik tok!!
@@user-pv1le7iz2x Why?
@@user-pv1le7iz2x it's not that bad
Its so annoying
@@user-pv1le7iz2x why
Looking forward to seeing this updated.
I always thought “Friendster” was a fake network for that one IT Crowd episode
Tik Tok is more popular than Instagram? God damn
Cuz China
Ye. Being a Chinese social media platform has its perks.
@@kaushikassagur769 trump is probs gonna ban the app. It's banned from the us Navy and the us government is cracking down on tik tok. It could be a threat to national security (assume it is).
I hate tiktok,The best social media are RUclips and instagram
no , tiktok only have 303M
after knowing youtube isn't a social media platform
me : my life was a joke
🤣🤣
RUclips is a career
It is you just make way more money off of it than others and you can start business
@@sahilyadav7163 nah dude tiktok is a trend and RUclips is a career
@@lebaldjames5033 I read it as cancer (don't know why) so deleted my previous comment.
Oh, My best friend in lockdown, Discord. Nice to see it making it to the list. Made many new friends here.
Very informative, thank you!
The late Google+ didn't even make it into the ranking! 🤔
PLS I HOPE THIS IS A JOKE
google+ is a WEBSITE to search They are saying SOCIAL MEDIA like people posting things or talking to eachother, cmmon i hope it was a joke
@@Maniguy_ Google+, not Google.
@@ThibautMahringer but its under Google,,,,, Google shut down Google+ totally in 2018..
@@dotcomsunny why
All of 90s social media, just livejournal who survived and active until now, proud
👍
Social media is pretty much at war with fact checkers, while media gets a free pass in lying. ruclips.net/video/ACVULnFtEKc/видео.html
Twitter isn't so popular as I thought :/
But it is stable as reddit. Never really lost users
Twitter is cancer
I found Bolt when I was in high school around 03/04. Whenever I mention it, no one ever believed me. They had a cool badge system that I always loved.
I was on bolt from 97-2000 I believe you, I'm an old pioneer, was looking for old bolt friends, but you were a little bit past my time, still cool you were there though! I'm thinking about doing an in depth video on it, all that remain are screenshots, but I'm going to show people how advanced it was for it's time
This is called a legend
Uploaded on RUclips without having it on the chart 👍
Glad to see Discord made an appearance on this one. I guess I would consider it more of a social media rather than an instant messager...
That also confused me but yeah I guess so.
I’d say it’s a social app, but it doesn’t have the media part
If discord is a social media, then so is RUclips
Discord is none of the both it's more like a legit cellphone most people only talk through it and don't even chat only people who chat in servers are between 13 to 17 let's be honest
Discord is based on IRC which were the worlds first ever social media. Why isn't IRC in the video?
IRC became popular on internet around 1989.
The important info... tx a lot
I am so surprised that Twitter has such a low number of users. I thought for sure it would've exceeded Facebook at one point.
Twitter is a one stop kinda deal. You get on once and realize there’s not much to do or explore. Unless you’re famous, nobody is gonna care about your tweets
I think most people outside of the US either uses IG or FB
Twitter is popular in US only. Who cares what Will Smith said after he slapped...don't remember the other guy's name?
I thought Instagram was like after Facebook... my life is a lie
I can imagine in active users it is though. Like we have to keep in mind here that some of these never "hit the market" outside specific counrties like with WeChat, SinaWeibo and QZone basically not existing outside China which doesn't allow most common sites/apps. Also this is most likely measured by accounts, so you have people with multiple accounts, inactive accounts, etc. and Facebook was a huge thing not so long ago.
Just that most now moved elsewhere but I highly doubt everybody deleted their account.
Most of the people have facebook. Just to have something like a profile. But uses instagram a lot
Every western thinks that the west is the entire World
@@gaviriak China's pretty communist, it's no surprise nobody's aware
I wouldn't blame the west for this if I were you
@@danysaurus Lol. East is not made only for china.
RUclips : am I joke to you
It is not a social media
@@frankdagenhart9711 Yes it is!
@@frankdagenhart9711 hey it is
But it's previously installed in all phones now days so it is not in this chat
It's not included in this list but it would have been on the second spot
I see Classmates still exists. In the UK we had a similar site called Friends Reunited; in the 2000s it was huge, a genuine social phenomenon. But novelty fatigue and Facebook took its toll, and it was permanently shut down in 2016.
FR was famous for breaking up marriages.
Nice information, thanks. Mostly used by college students, right?
This was extremely interesting to watch! Does anyone remember Paxed? I met my first boyfriend off of there. It was taboo at the time to say that you met someone online, so I lied to my mom and told her I met him at the mall. 😝💁🏽♀️
This is the most wholesome thing I've seen today 😂😂🔥
I met my first girlfriend on bebo. Those were the days.
Every social media : i want to be on this list!!
RUclips : i am too good to be there
Discord:iPhone X VS Samsung Galaxy S20 VS Xiaomi Mi 8 VS Realme X3 Superzoom
If RUclips was on here it would've dominated for years
Dexter Lau WTF?
Why is it not there?
it is videohosting
facebook: we have the most users
zoom in 2020: hold my beer
😂😂😂
Zoom isnt even a social media
Phong bão tố it is lmao
I don’t even know why everyone saying everyone uses them because not many people actually use it people use it a lot for school though but literally you can just use FaceTime to FaceTime friends
@@coolcat9516 explain then why is zoom a social media platform
Fascinating. Of course the counter counts all users as cumulative, and double and treble counts them across platforms, hence we arrive at 10B users in 2020 where there were actually 3.8BN active users total. But, allowing for that, it’s a great graphic and fascinating to watch.
One of the early kind of social media platforms was Hotline. Actually was not a clear social media, but more a share platform, but it had a chat with a profile.
This platform was available only for Mac users and after it gains some popularity was accessible for PC users as well.
You know something is wrong when there are 10 Billion monthly users on social media.
LMOOOO I didn't even notice that GFHJYHBKKFHMVHBMJKHGY there are only 7billion people on planet earth
You use more than 1 social media right?
i wold say that
@@dylanmoody1722 I just googled this. There are 4.5 billion people using the internet. Not all of them use social media of course. You have to consider there are also business accounts, personal/public accounts and abandoned accounts (dead people?!).
Facebooks a few years old so theres a few dead people accounts in there. And a lot of people make multiple accounts for different reasons, or lose their account data
4:24 Goodbye everyone lol
هههههه انا أيضا راحل 😂🤣
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The exact second before the worst thing ever.
@@jc-13 x2
@@user-iv5fx4yh5p what are you saying can you translate??
Well done.
I think LinkedIn is always existing and important, but only for a professional use. Thank you for this interesting video. 🙏
it's the most useful for regular users, i love it
Discord: appears at the bottom
Me in my head : we will reach the top one day
Mostly because it isnt an all age app and most adults dont use it, but almost every teen does
Yes we will
Discord is for kids or not?
@@I_asked10 sometime peoples send weird shit so I would say no.
@@_icraftqc_ ok
I can't believe how Tiktok has reached to the top 3 since their first launch in 2018 and also how Facebook still at the top. This is mesmerising!
Thare first lunch was in 2016 but thay originally went by musicly then in 2018 thay sorta rebrandid into tiktok
Because it's so different. Like Vine
Never heard of half of these. Just goes to show how much power FB has now days though. And Tik Tok coming up fast.
This is genius, thanks!
4:24 : TikTok joins the chat
Me : Lefts the chat
Lefts?
PRINGLE MAN lmao
i was wondering why discord is not included in this. And just then in 2019, it showed up.
Gauresh Grover I got 1200 notifications from 3 servers overnight lmao
An yt
@@oblades those maybe huge public servers.
Gauresh Grover no just a lot of smalll ones
@@oblades a lot?? but you were saying only 3....bruh
Orkut was very popular here in Brazil. We loved that social media
2004 Facebook: "The slow and steady turtle wins the race.
2009 Facebook: "pfft, psyche! Bye losers!" *Shot out of a gods damn cannon*
FB took off after Russia cloned it, hmm...
@@taskdon769 u trying to say something about Russians my guy ?
finally discord is here
Discord, aahhhh, get a daily dose of that Discord
Yep
About time huh
I would be really happy if discord passed TikTok’s user count lol
Bro who hell uses discord you cant text no thots on that shi
Every other app: I wanna be on the leaderboard I wanna be number one
Facebook: haha im number 1
RUclips: ill let Facebook have its moment
RUclips wasn’t on there, I think u mean reddit
@@linkmaink3983 *bruh moment*
RUclips is actually below Facebook somehow
@@peanutbutterpuppies2756 oh sorry I must of missed that
@@linkmaink3983 Oh no it wasn't on there but if they included I think it would be above or below wechat
Oh, MySpace….we didn’t appreciate how good we had it with you…😢
I miss you LiveJournal, those were some great times. And I'm kinda shocked that Tumblr has more users than Twitter.
I laughed when tiktok entered the chat and went up so fast😂😂
More like cry for me
Lol
Society is truly crumbling, at least Reddit is still more popular in Britain from the looks, TikTok can go fuck itself
Tik tok super Best
@@darklordsauron6952 you mean you support tiktok or not, because if so, i don't know what's wrong with you
"Everybody's mom used to have it, now it's just their mom"
-Jarvis Johnson
I am really sad to see google plus never made it to the top. It was a top tier social media platform and I will never forget it
The fact that Myspace never overtook Reddit is surprising
Most of those early ones I dont remember loved BOUGHT AND KILLED BY AMAZON hilarious.
Discord Of Realme 6i
Okay but someone needs to answer my question. Where is RUclips?
The 3 Musketeers RUclips is not a social media...
vine: *it's my time to shine*
vine: *oh facebook has 2 billion users*
also vine: *understandable have nice day*
😂😂
Can't. Stop. Watching. These
When I saw the old logo of Discord, I remembered the joy I had with my friend
I'm surprised how low on the list Twitter was. I thought it would only be second to Facebook.
Nope in fact in the grand scheme of things twitter is largely irrelevent
@@MasakanSolaris In the grand scheme of things humanity is largely irrelevant.
same
@@MasakanSolaris irrelevant ? alot of Celebrity and Influencers career has been KILLED and ended by Twitter with Twitter Cancelledt Culture 😂
I honestly thought Facebook would die by around 2015/16 just based on the shelf life of everything before it. But it’s still there on top after a decade. Crazy.
Asia. Still the most used here.
@@anukcinnamom6653 Latin america also. I think it only stoped being used in the US, Canada and western europe
Facebook kind of begs people to make an account
People have it but it still very much dead
And here now facebook owned instagram and whatts app 😂 and the owner become one of the richest person in the world until know, and as I know the richest person among all social media owner
The fact that vine is younger than reddit and tumblr is kinda shocking
Finally a video like this which put Discord!!
Переживал за ОдноКлассников больше, чем за свою жизнь
Ты заметил, он в моменте даже обошел фэйсбук лол ахаха
@@mistergarik8608 да. Норм пацаны ресурс сделали, не то что Дуров пародию на фэйс
Как этот лоховский ресурс мог опередить Вконтакте с Дуровым?...
@@VoguingBoy как обычно.
@@VoguingBoy почему лоховской? Сайт как сайт, просто там осели одни старпёрды, поэтому и бэкграунд под них делали, типо тупых аватарок с пархающими бабочками. Собсна фейсбук недалеко ушел
Vine was a first 2015 "Tik Tok" social media.
Zatsune Miku But musical.ly was tiktok
There used to be something called Dumbsmash, I think that was the first Tik Tok
Dont compare vine to tiktok
no , tiktok only have 303M
I dont know most of the people were talking about vine . Is it really a good platform
Lord I miss MySpace so much. It was such an outlet for self-expression. All the hard work and creativity I poured into it.... the writing, the hours I spent every week perfecting the aesthetic of my profile, the music... why did we let Facebook ever replace it
Ngl I never got into myspace in it's hayday but have had a Facebook account since like 2009 and honestly if enough people could get MySpace going strong again I'd totally jump on that train
Can you do 1993-1999 most popular online video sharing platforms?
Facebook: u want to see some real speeeed. I’ll show u some spead.
Sonic: Hey, that's my line!!!
Facebook: Okay, here we go. Focus. Speed. I am speed. One winner, 42 losers. I eat losers for breakfast. Breakfast? Maybe I should have had breakfast? Brekkie could be good for me. No, no, no, focus. Speed. Faster than fast, quicker than quick. I am Lightning. Speed. I am Speed.
Meanwhile zoom hold my bear
Mark Zuckerberg on Speed, scary thought
2:35 damn Facebook
I was shocked not to see youtube
Nice video
1:42 the start of a king
*REDDIT MOMENT INTENSIFIES*
When TicToc appeared, I started to cry.
It’s a good app... the algorithm learns what you like super quickly
@@cesrperez You don't fool me, TicToc-Agent.
Same with musically
Cesar Perez how much did tiktok pay you? Bring me to your boss, I want get a part time job too.
@@DieReaktion Moin Meister
I remember Bolt. Interesting times. Not necessarily good times, just interesting ones.
I remember a fairly positive experience on Bolt, perhaps we've met, I was there 97-2000
Good job
When vine disappeared and musica.ly popped in, I almost cried.
F for vine
now tik tok GAY!!!
100% draw download facebook Xiaomi Redmi 6
Musica.ly is definitely worse then Vine but it was atleast better than Tik Tok :(
This is great, thanks for the time you spent making this!!
March 2006, the month when friendster overtook classmates.... it overtook many things
Hi captain!! Can you do like... Kpop stars/groups popularity?
4:44 *GAMER RISE*
GAYmer
rise up gamer boys
@@abhisarbankar You Indian Boi Its Your Fault For Gamer To Hate Your
@@SmgPlayz being racist is such an epic gamer moment
@@defaulter264 i was Just joking im indian also
Facebook: you can't defeat me
Instragran: i know but he can
RUclips : john cena
You can't see me😂
FACEBOOK AND HIS FRIEND MESSENGER 🤟😏won
I'am shock pal talk was not on here
Honestly I'm surprised to see that discord has such a low number of users considered the fact that today almost everyone in school has it
I refuse to believe that someone uses Facebook in 2020
2 billion monthly active users 🔥🔥🔥
@@dudedude365 facebook is dead
I'm using facebook since 2012, tried almost all the alternatives but facebook seems to be the sweet spot for everything. Facebook is kinda the all rounder and the mix of all other social medias.
Everyone still uses Facebook...wtf do you mean
AxilGR Clearly not. A shit ton of people still use it.
We all know this video is gonna blow up at some point
i loved bolt and i miss it so much to this day. i won free stuff from them (like pepsi blue in 1998) and met all kinds of cool people. it was the greatest thing in my life at the time lol.
I was there during that time too, do you remember your username? Mine was snrakd
@@lightpropulsionguy yeah i do, my username on bolt was Plantworm1 lol
@@Acolis I don't think we crossed paths, I was a rebellious teenager and found my place on the Magicka and paranormal boards.
Myspace started 1st August 2003 and is still here; too bad they don't look after it, it is slow now but still got a nice layout.
I kinda miss Bolt... Yes, I'm THAT old. XD
Same... Bolt was great back in the day. lol.
@@Rainbowsanddark750 46.
@@Rainbowsanddark750 Plastic surgery is a great thing to have
Yes my mom was talking about it alot
Wow.
im a teen so ive never heard of bolt. what did u do on it?
Tik tok rising is India*
Le government : patt se headshot
Dude
Its not 2014
@@ocinregnilgoh4760 who said it is
Would like to see data now 🤣😂😂
@girish reddy it's not a social media
Dude that bloody TikTok goes boom
Interesting!