Recently, GlobalWebIndex, a market research agency, published the ranking of active users of global social networking sites, showing that Facebook is still top of the list, with four of google++, Youtube, Twitter and Qzone (QQ space) separated. GlobalWebIndex is headquartered in the UK, and the active user of the statistics is December users of those social networking sites. Briefly introduce the report:
Global social networking sites
1, Facebook is still the world's first, active users have about 700 million, the global Internet users accounted for 51%;
2, the number of global active users of Google + has reached 343 million, the proportion of global Internet users accounted for 25%. Google + was also ridiculed as "virtual ghost town" last year, but not the same.
3, about 21% of global Internet users use YouTube every month, slightly above Twitter.
4, Twitter's global active users reached 288 million. GlobalWebIndex predicts that Twitter will continue to grow fastest in 2013. It is reported that the latter in the 31 market GlobalWebIndex study (about 90% of the total number of Internet users around the world) the number of active users has increased by 40%.
Social networking sites in China
9 Chinese social networking sites list the GlobalWebIndex social networking site rankings. Among them, Tencent QQ Space (Qzone), Sina Weibo in all Chinese social networking sites ranked first, second, in the global rankings separated fifth, sixth. The report statistics Tencent's three products, QQ space, Tencent Weibo and Tencent, after a list specifically refers to which product, it is puzzling. The report does not count mobile social products and makes them less professional.
"The data collected in the fourth quarter of last year show that users are increasingly moving from localized social platforms to global social platforms, which is also driving the rapid growth of Twitter, Google + and Facebook." "GlobalWebIndex said. In fact, Google + 's growth is not based on the decline of Facebook and Twitter, but on the misappropriation of smaller, localized social networking users. Looking ahead, user growth in Facebook, Google +, Twitter, and YouTube will continue to be based on the loss of users in localized social networking small social networks.