The Top 15 Social Networks Worldwide [STATS]

Having blasted through an impressive one billion active users last October, it will likely come as no surprise to anyone reading this blog that Facebook is the biggest social network on the planet, and will likely remain that way for some time.

That is, after all, why they called that movie *The* Social Network. But which social media platform occupies the number two spot? And where does Twitter fit in all of this?

Brace yourselves. According to the latest data, it’s Google+ that has the highest penetration rate of active users amongst all social networks worldwide, with its 26 percent penetration rate good enough for second place behind Facebook’s other-worldly (spoiler: it’s this world) 51 percent.

YouTube ranks third at 25 percent, Twitter is fourth at 22 percent and Chinese social networks Sina Weibo and Qzone, with a 21 percent penetration rate each, tie for fifth.

Couple of things about this data, which comes via GlobalWebIndex,...

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