With 2.41 billion active users, Facebook is the most popular social media platform in the world, followed by YouTube, with 2 billion users, according to data from Statista.
WeChat grabbed fifth place, with the number of people using this Chinese social platform reaching 1.13 billion as of October 2019.
TikTok, known in China as Douyin, ranked ninth. It was developed in 2017 by Bytedance, a Chinese internet tech company, and it has already reached half a billion users.
Let's take a look at the top 10 most popular social media platforms.
No 10 Reddit
Reddit mascots are displayed at the company's headquarters in San Francisco, California April 15, 2014. [Photo/Agencies]
No 9 Sina Weibo
The booth of Sina Weibo is pictured at the Beijing International Cultural and Creative Industry Expo, in Beijing, May 29, 2019. [Photo/Agencies]
No 8 TikTok/Douyin
A man holding a phone walks past a sign of TikTok, known in China as Douyin, at the International Artificial Products Expo in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, October 18, 2019. [Photo/Agencies]
No 7 QQ
A Tencent staff member walks past two QQ mascots at a Tencent office building in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong province, on Dec 3, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]
No 6 Instagram
The Instagram application is seen on a phone screen August 3, 2017. [Photo/Agencies]
No 5 WeChat
WeChat grabbed fifth place, with the number of people using this Chinese social platform reaching 1.13 billion as of October 2019. [Photo/IC]
No 4 Facebook Messenger
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks about Messenger at Facebook Inc's annual F8 developers conference in San Jose, California, May 1, 2018. [Photo/VCG]
No 3 WhatsApp
Silhouettes of laptop and mobile device users are seen next to a screen projection of Whatsapp logo in this picture illustration taken March 28, 2018. [Photo/Agencies]
No 2 YouTube
Video streaming service YouTube's booth is set up at 2018 ChinaJoy, Aug 22, 2018. [Photo/IC]
