Launched in 2011 by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown, Snapchat started as a mobile experiment designed to eliminate the anxiety of permanent digital records.
Facebook is still the one everybody's on, 3.07 billion accounts checking in every month. WhatsApp and Instagram are dead even behind it at 3.00 billion apiece. YouTube lands at 2.58 billion, TikTok at 1.99 billion, then…
Social media monthly active users ranked
Twenty-five platforms, sorted by the year they showed up, and the ones still standing say a lot. The earliest entry on the board is Classmates.com, live since 1995. SixDegrees came two years later, in 1997, and was gone…
Social media platforms by launch year
Pew Research Center put together the full ranking of what Americans actually open on their phones. YouTube leads the pack at 84%, then Facebook at 71%, with Instagram pulling in half of online users. TikTok reaches 37%,…
