Social Media Usage

Data Stories

Leading social media sites in India

Nikita Joshi

Face book has emerged as the leading social media sites in India followed by Instagram, You Tube and Twitter.

Revenue of different social media platforms over the years

Vishisht Dwivedi

The graph shows revenue of different social media platforms over the years. Face-book has gained most revenue, followed by Whatsapp and Tik-Tok has gained most during Covid-19 and the revenue has increased around 10 times.
 
 

Social networks ranked by monthly users

Arya S Biju


Facebook was the first social media network to surpass one billion registered accounts and currently has more than three billion active users. Meta Platforms, Facebook, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Instagram are four of the biggest social media platforms, all with over one billion monthly active users each:.

Non active users on social media

Sumanta Sinha

The bar graph shows how the usage of social media varies among different age bracket groups. Between the age of 18 and 25 only 22 percentage of youths don’t use social media whereas above 56 years of age is recorded as the highest number of people who preferred to stay away from the various platforms of social media. Source Statista as of January 2022

Increasing Facebook users over the years

Varidhi Goyal

According to the Statista Market Outlooks, Facebook users in India is forecasted to continuously increase between 2024 and 2027 by in total 161.9 million users (+32.58 percent).

India has the largest YouTube audience

Akankhya Rout

India was the country that was found to have the largest audience in October 2023, with approximately 462 million Youtube users.

User data requests to Facebook from federal agencies and governments

Anupama V M

India is second, behind the United States in the number of user data requests issued to Facebook by federal agencies and governments during 2nd half of 2022. A total of 239,388 data requests have issued to Facebook by federal agencies and governments in the 2nd half of 2022 alone, according to statista.

Instagram Usage

Lovely Tyagi

Instagram is the fourth most popular social media platform in terms of users. It has more than 2.35 billion monthly active users worldwide. The platform is expected to reach 2.5 billion users by the end of 2023. The platform’s ‘reels’ feature is used worldwide for short video content.

Number of Twitter users in every country

Avantika Khajuria

Twitter is a popular social media platform with over 528 million total users and 540 million monetizable monthly active users (mMAUs). The platform is most popular in the United States, Japan, India, Brazil, and Indonesia.

Reddit usage ranked by country

Saradhi Sankar

This graph depicts the top Reddit users (in millions) around the world. UK tops the list with 295.5 million users, followed by India and Canada with 280.2 and 271 million users respectively.
Source: World population review

Discord usage by device

Prajwal Jayaraj

The chart details the top five countries who use the social media messaging application Discord and the percentage of users who use their desktops to access it, contrasted with the ones who use their mobile phones to do the same. Source: Semrush