Hard to believe that this is now the 4th month of tracking the stats on peak social media usage. It’s not an exact science as accurate social media user data is hard to come by but in time these stats may become useful, or if nothing else, interesting. And, on the topic of interesting but perhaps useless info, this also happens to be my 50th blog post since my first post – Social Media Logo A Go-Go – on the 15th of July, a rate of one post every 2.16 days. If you’ve been reading posts at a similar rate many, many thanks.
Anyway, lets get numerical. As always this post follows on from the September, August and July posts and is based on the trojan work done by expandedramblings.com.
Have We Hit Peak Social Media – October Update
Without further ado, here are the top 25 social media sites for October.
| No.# | Name | Users (in millions) | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1119 | Surely you’ve heard of FB? | |
| 2 | YouTube | 1000 | ..ditto for YouTube |
| 3 | 825.4 | Chinese social media network | |
| 4 | QZone | 611 | Chinese social media |
| 5 | Sina Weibo | 503 | Chinese social media site |
| 6 | 500 | ..tweet tweet.. | |
| 7 | Google + | 343 | Expect to see this figure much bigger next month |
| 8 | Tagged | 330 | probably should have heard of this one |
| 9 | 238 | Social media network for business | |
| 10 | WeChat/WeiXln | 235 | Originally Chinese, now global |
| 11 | Line | 230 | Japanese study social network |
| 12 | Tumblr | 216 | They see me tumblin’, they hatin’ |
| 13 | Gree | 190 | Japanese social media, sushi pic heaven |
| 14 | Renren | 178 | Chinese real name social network |
| 15 | Badoo | 172 | Russian owned, dating social network |
| 16 | 150 | No meal is complete without it | |
| 17 | Youku Toudou | 130 | Chinese YouTube |
| 18 | VK.com | 100 | Russian social network site |
| 19 | Douban | 100 | Chinese Social Media Site |
| 20 | Netlog | 84 | Founded in Belgium, now global social media network |
| 21 | MyHeritage | 75 | Family orientated social network |
| 22 | 70 | Pin the tail on the.. | |
| 23 | Odnoklassniki | 65.3 | Russian social network |
| 24 | MyLife | 63 | Social media site aggregator to find friends |
| 25 | Ask.fm | 60 | Social media site that’s always in the news |
When all is said in done the top 25 give us a total of 7.608 BILLION social media users of the top 25 social media sites for October. This represents a slight increase in users of .184%. The big movers and shakers in the month were Facebook losing a bit and a new arrival, Douban, knocking Classmates.com off the bottom of the chart and into social media oblivion (cough, 26th spot).
I think next month I’ll roll out one of my much promised graphs to give a visual representation of monthly changes. Do you have any preferences to the type of graph – line graph, pie chart, bar graph? Leave a comment and let me know and also, what’s your prediction for November – higher or lower?
Note: These social media usage figures are based on the work done by ExpandedRamblings. It isn’t easy to get accurate and verified stats and so some of the social media stats might be a bit off.