List of virtual communities with more than 100 million active users

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This is a list of all virtual communities with more than 100 million active users.

Rank Name Registered users Active user accounts Date of stat Date launched Country of origin
1 Facebook 7009100000000000000 1+ billion[1] 7009100000000000000 1 billion[1] 02012-10-01October 2012 02004-02-01February 2004  United States
2 Tencent QQ 7008784000000000000 784+ million[2] 7008712000000000000 712 million[3] 02012-09-01September 2012 01999-02-01February 1999  China
3 Skype 7008663000000000000 663+ million[4] 7008145000000000000 280 million[5][6] 02013-01-01January 2013 02003-08-01August 2003  Denmark  Sweden
4 Google+ 7008500000000000000 500+ million[7] 7008235000000000000 235 million[7] 02012-12-01December 2012 02011-06-01June 2011  United States
5 Twitter 7008500000000000000 500+ million[8] 7008200000000000000 200+ million[9] 02012-12-01December 2012 02006-03-01March 2006  United States
6 LinkedIn 7008200000000000000 200+ million[10] 7008160000000000000 160 million[10] 02013-01-01January 2013 02003-05-01May 2003  United States
7 Tencent Qzone 7008597000000000000 597+ million[11] 7008150000000000000 150 million[12][13] 02012-09-01September 2012 02005-01-012005  China
8 LINE 150+ million [14] 150 million [15] 02013-05-01May 2013 02011-01-012011  Japan
9 Sina Weibo 7008400000000000000 400+ million[16] 7008100000000000000 100+ million[17][18] 02013-02-01February 2013 02009-08-01August 2009  China
10 ВКонтакте 7008200000000000000 208+ million[19] 7008100000000000000 100 million[20] 02013-04-01April 2013 02006-09-01September 2006  Russia
11 Dropbox 7008100000000000000 100+ million[21] 7008100000000000000 100 million[21] 02012-11-01November 2012 02008-09-01September 2008  United States
12 Windows Live 7008100000000000000 100 million[22] 7008100000000000000 100 million[22] 02012-12-01December 2012 02005-11-01November 2005  United States
13 Instagram 7008100000000000000 100+ million 7008100000000000000 100 million[23] 02013-02-01February 2013 02010-10-01October 2010  United States

Note: An "active user" is defined by Facebook as a user who has interacted with the community in the last 30 days. This includes "Liking" from 3rd party sites without actually visiting the Facebook.com site.[24] Other sites define this in different terms.

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  1. ^ a b "Facebook". SECDatabase.com. Retrieved 26 July 2012. 
  2. ^ "6 Chinese social media superstars – QQ". CNN. 10 September 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2013. 
  3. ^ "About Tencent". Tencent. Retrieved 4 October 2012. 
  4. ^ "Skype grows FY revenues 20%, reaches 663 mln users". Telecom Paper. 2011-03-08. 
  5. ^ Munsell, Parri (2013-02-15). "Skype and Messenger Coming Together: The Next Chapter |". Blogs.skype.com. Retrieved 2013-03-04. 
  6. ^ Sunday, October 14th, 2012 (2012-10-14). "Skype Reaches A 45M Concurrent User Peak, And What Looks Like A New Stage Of Momentum". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2013-03-04. 
  7. ^ a b Vic, Gundotra (6 December 2012). "Google+: Communities and photos". Google Blog. Retrieved 2 February 2013. 
  8. ^ Lunden, Ingrid (31 July 2012). "Twitter May Have 500M+ Users But Only 170M Are Active, 75% On Twitter’s Own Clients". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2 February 2013. 
  9. ^ Fiegerman, Seth (18 December 2012). "Twitter Now Has More Than 200 Million Monthly Active Users". Mashable. Retrieved 2 February 2013. 
  10. ^ a b "LinkedIn reaches 200 million members worldwide". LinkedIn Press Center. 9 January 2013. Retrieved 2 February 2013. 
  11. ^ "6 Chinese social media superstars – Qzone". CNN. 10 September 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2013. 
  12. ^ "The world's largest online social network: QZone". web2asia. February 24, 2009. Retrieved 2009-10-13. 
  13. ^ "The World Map of Social Networks". Ria Novosti. 28 February 2011. Retrieved 2 February 2013. 
  14. ^ "Line Passes 150M Users Of Its Sticker-Stuffed Messaging App, Up From 100M In January". 2013-05-01. Retrieved 2013-05-03. 
  15. ^ "Line Passes 150M Users Of Its Sticker-Stuffed Messaging App, Up From 100M In January". 2013-05-01. Retrieved 2013-05-03. 
  16. ^ Millward, Steven (16 November 2012). "Sina Reveals Q3 Financials, Announces Weibo has Passed 400 Million Registered Users". Tech In Asia. Retrieved 2 February 2013. 
  17. ^ "Sina Weibo 90 Percent Users Zombies". Techinasia.com. Retrieved 2013-03-04.  Note: This article gives "Daily Active Users" stat. Note, it has come to light that at least 90% of Sina Weibo's accounts are fake or automated.
  18. ^ Cao, Belinda (28 February 2012). "Sina’s Weibo Outlook Buoys Internet Stock Gains: China Overnight". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2 February 2013. 
  19. ^ "Catalog". VK. Retrieved 2013-04-18. 
  20. ^ Tuesday, May 29th, 2012 (2012-05-29). "More FB IPO Fallout? Russia’s Leading Social Network Vkontakte’s IPO ‘Postponed Indefinitely’". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on 2013-04-06. Retrieved 2013-03-04. 
  21. ^ a b Schramm, Mike (14 November 2012). "Dropbox hits 100 million users, looking for great Dropbox stories". The Unofficial Apple Weblog. Retrieved 15 November 2012. 
  22. ^ a b "End Of An Era: Windows Live Messenger To Be Retired, Users Transitioned To Skype". TechCrunch. 2011-09-13. Retrieved 6 November 2012. 
  23. ^ "Facebook's Instagram reaches 100 million monthly active users | NDTV Gadgets". Gadgets.ndtv.com. 2013-02-27. Retrieved 2013-03-04. 
  24. ^ Fowler, Geoffrey A. (2012-10-04). "Facebook: One Billion and Counting - WSJ.com". Online.wsj.com. Retrieved 2013-02-08. 

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