Which social media platform is the biggest? (infographic)

Written By Damien Buxton

On 15 Sep, 2018

Since the inception of social media back in the early to mid-noughties, the entire landscape has shifted. Year on year many social media platforms have experienced unbelievable growth, becoming some of the top used sites in the world.

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Across the globe billions of people use social media daily. You can’t walk 10 feet outside of your office without hearing a ding or bleep on someone’s phone, a post on Facebook, a comment on Twitter or a like on a social media platform like Instagram.

To many of us we check our social media accounts first thing in the morning and last thing before bed, its part of our daily lives.

So, we all know how important social media is to today, it’s especially true for businesses that are trying to build an online marketing strategy to connect with their audiences. Having a website for your business without an active social media presence is crazy!

But which social media platform dominates?

Which is the ‘super giant’ and the one that gets the most users? Visual Capitalist has answered this question in a unique and visual way. How the galaxy of social media platforms fare against each other.