Top Social Media Sites by Users

Facebook, with 3.07 billion monthly active users as of Q4 2023, the last Facebook-only count Meta published before it switched to reporting one figure for all its apps (3.64 billion daily active people in September 2026). Instagram and WhatsApp, also Meta's, are next at 3 billion and more than 3 billion; the three sit within a tenth of a billion of each other, on figures dated between February 1, 2024 and September 24, 2025.

By each company's latest published figure: Facebook (3.07 billion monthly active users (Q4 2023)), Instagram (3 billion monthly active users (September 2025)), WhatsApp (more than 3 billion monthly users (April 2025)), YouTube (over 2 billion monthly logged-in users (May 2019)), WeChat (1.439 billion combined monthly active users (Q2 2026)), LinkedIn (more than 1.3 billion members (registered) (April 2026)), Messenger (1.3 billion monthly active users (September 2017)), Telegram (significantly over 1 billion monthly active users (March 2025)), TikTok (1 billion monthly active users (September 2021)), and Snapchat (971 million monthly active users (Q2 2026)). The full table above adds the metric each company counts, the period, the owner, the country, the launch year and a link to the source.

9 of the 35, by their companies' figures: Facebook (3.07 billion), Instagram (3 billion), WhatsApp (more than 3 billion), YouTube (over 2 billion), WeChat (1.439 billion), LinkedIn (more than 1.3 billion), Messenger (1.3 billion), Telegram (significantly over 1 billion), and TikTok (1 billion). 4 of them belong to Meta, whose own combined count is 3.64 billion daily active people across its apps (September 2026); 3 rest on figures older than 2023, so the true order inside the group is not knowable from company data alone.

Because each company decides what it publishes and when. Listed companies report every quarter (WeChat, Snapchat, Kuaishou, Pinterest, QQ, Reddit, Bilibili, and Life360 all published figures for the second quarter of 2026), Meta has reported no per-app figure since the end of 2023, and private companies such as ByteDance and Telegram announce round milestones when it suits them. 16 of the 35 figures are dated 2026 and 6 2025; 6 are older than 2023, the oldest Viber's from November 5, 2014, and 4 carry no date at all. The table sorts by newest figure so you can see which rows are current.

No. 28 of the 35 count people active in a month, as the company defines it. The other 7 count something else and are ranked on that figure as published: LinkedIn (members (registered)), Douyin (daily active users), Reddit (weekly active uniques), Quora (monthly unique visitors), imo (users (app listing)), Vevo (US monthly viewers), and Twitch (average monthly visitors). Comparing a member count or a weekly figure with a monthly one overstates or understates the platform, so the metric column names what each company counts.

Meta Platforms, with 5 of the 35: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Threads. Tencent runs 3 (WeChat, QQ, and Qzone); Microsoft and ByteDance run 2 each. Counting by owner matters because Meta now publishes one combined figure for its family of apps rather than a count per platform.

The United States, with 20 of the 35, followed by China with 9. 7 countries are represented in all, by the headquarters the source lists; 5 of the Chinese platforms are run by Tencent or ByteDance.

ByteDance is private and has published no global figure for either app since 2021 (TikTok, 1 billion monthly users) and 2020 (Douyin, over 600 million daily users). Its newer official numbers are regional: TikTok reported 189 million monthly users in the European Union for the first half of 2026 under the Digital Services Act. Third-party estimates run far higher, with DataReportal putting TikTok's ad reach at 1.59 billion in January 2025 and QuestMobile estimating Douyin above a billion monthly users in 2026, but they are estimates, so the table shows the companies' own figures and notes the rest.

The platform list, owners, countries and launch years come from the Wikipedia revision of October 11, 2026, read on October 28, 2026. The figures were found and read on October 28, 2026, each from the source linked in its preview; the newest was published on August 27, 2026 (Bilibili). Before this read the page showed DataReportal's estimates of April 24, 2024, and the rank moves compare with that table.