List of virtual communities with more than 100 million active users

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This is a list of all virtual communities with more than 100 million active users.

Rank Name Registered users Active user accounts Date of stat Date launched Country of origin
1 Facebook 7009100000000000000 1+ billion1 7009100000000000000 1 billion1 02012-10-01October 2012 02004-02-01February 2004  United States
2 Tencent QQ 7008784000000000000 784+ million2 7008712000000000000 712 million3 02012-09-01September 2012 01999-02-01February 1999  China
3 Skype 7008663000000000000 663+ million4 7008145000000000000 280 million56 02013-01-01January 2013 02003-08-01August 2003  Denmark  Sweden
4 Google+ 7008500000000000000 500+ million7 7008235000000000000 235 million7 02012-12-01December 2012 02011-06-01June 2011  United States
5 Twitter 7008500000000000000 500+ million8 7008200000000000000 200+ million9 02012-12-01December 2012 02006-03-01March 2006  United States
6 LinkedIn 7008200000000000000 200+ million10 7008160000000000000 160 million10 02013-01-01January 2013 02003-05-01May 2003  United States
7 Tencent Qzone 7008597000000000000 597+ million11 7008150000000000000 150 million1213 02012-09-01September 2012 02005-01-012005  China
8 LINE 150+ million 14 150 million 15 02013-05-01May 2013 02011-01-012011  Japan
9 Sina Weibo 7008400000000000000 400+ million16 7008100000000000000 100+ million1718 02013-02-01February 2013 02009-08-01August 2009  China
10 ВКонтакте 7008200000000000000 208+ million19 7008100000000000000 100 million20 02013-04-01April 2013 02006-09-01September 2006  Russia
11 Dropbox 7008100000000000000 100+ million21 7008100000000000000 100 million21 02012-11-01November 2012 02008-09-01September 2008  United States
12 Windows Live 7008100000000000000 100 million22 7008100000000000000 100 million22 02012-12-01December 2012 02005-11-01November 2005  United States
13 Instagram 7008100000000000000 100+ million 7008100000000000000 100 million23 02013-02-01February 2013 02010-10-01October 2010  United States

Note: An "active user" is defined by Facebook as a user who has interacted with the community in the last 30 days. This includes "Liking" from 3rd party sites without actually visiting the Facebook.com site.24 Other sites define this in different terms.

See also

References

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  2. ^ "6 Chinese social media superstars – QQ". CNN. 10 September 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2013. 
  3. ^ "About Tencent". Tencent. Retrieved 4 October 2012. 
  4. ^ "Skype grows FY revenues 20%, reaches 663 mln users". Telecom Paper. 2011-03-08. 
  5. ^ Munsell, Parri (2013-02-15). "Skype and Messenger Coming Together: The Next Chapter |". Blogs.skype.com. Retrieved 2013-03-04. 
  6. ^ Sunday, October 14th, 2012 (2012-10-14). "Skype Reaches A 45M Concurrent User Peak, And What Looks Like A New Stage Of Momentum". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2013-03-04. 
  7. ^ a b Vic, Gundotra (6 December 2012). "Google+: Communities and photos". Google Blog. Retrieved 2 February 2013. 
  8. ^ Lunden, Ingrid (31 July 2012). "Twitter May Have 500M+ Users But Only 170M Are Active, 75% On Twitter’s Own Clients". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2 February 2013. 
  9. ^ Fiegerman, Seth (18 December 2012). "Twitter Now Has More Than 200 Million Monthly Active Users". Mashable. Retrieved 2 February 2013. 
  10. ^ a b "LinkedIn reaches 200 million members worldwide". LinkedIn Press Center. 9 January 2013. Retrieved 2 February 2013. 
  11. ^ "6 Chinese social media superstars – Qzone". CNN. 10 September 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2013. 
  12. ^ "The world's largest online social network: QZone". web2asia. February 24, 2009. Retrieved 2009-10-13. 
  13. ^ "The World Map of Social Networks". Ria Novosti. 28 February 2011. Retrieved 2 February 2013. 
  14. ^ "Line Passes 150M Users Of Its Sticker-Stuffed Messaging App, Up From 100M In January". 2013-05-01. Retrieved 2013-05-03. 
  15. ^ "Line Passes 150M Users Of Its Sticker-Stuffed Messaging App, Up From 100M In January". 2013-05-01. Retrieved 2013-05-03. 
  16. ^ Millward, Steven (16 November 2012). "Sina Reveals Q3 Financials, Announces Weibo has Passed 400 Million Registered Users". Tech In Asia. Retrieved 2 February 2013. 
  17. ^ "Sina Weibo 90 Percent Users Zombies". Techinasia.com. Retrieved 2013-03-04.  Note: This article gives "Daily Active Users" stat. Note, it has come to light that at least 90% of Sina Weibo's accounts are fake or automated.
  18. ^ Cao, Belinda (28 February 2012). "Sina’s Weibo Outlook Buoys Internet Stock Gains: China Overnight". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2 February 2013. 
  19. ^ "Catalog". VK. Retrieved 2013-04-18. 
  20. ^ Tuesday, May 29th, 2012 (2012-05-29). "More FB IPO Fallout? Russia’s Leading Social Network Vkontakte’s IPO ‘Postponed Indefinitely’". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on 2013-04-06. Retrieved 2013-03-04. 
  21. ^ a b Schramm, Mike (14 November 2012). "Dropbox hits 100 million users, looking for great Dropbox stories". The Unofficial Apple Weblog. Retrieved 15 November 2012. 
  22. ^ a b "End Of An Era: Windows Live Messenger To Be Retired, Users Transitioned To Skype". TechCrunch. 2011-09-13. Retrieved 6 November 2012. 
  23. ^ "Facebook's Instagram reaches 100 million monthly active users | NDTV Gadgets". Gadgets.ndtv.com. 2013-02-27. Retrieved 2013-03-04. 
  24. ^ Fowler, Geoffrey A. (2012-10-04). "Facebook: One Billion and Counting - WSJ.com". Online.wsj.com. Retrieved 2013-02-08. 

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