This App Is Exploding Across the U.S. -And It’s Not TikTok

Discover the top 35 social media platforms ranked by monthly active users and traffic, revealing how social media usage is shaping the digital world in 2025.

Dec 20, 2025 - 21:28
This App Is Exploding Across the U.S. -And It’s Not TikTok
This App Is Exploding Across the U.S. -And It’s Not TikTok

We’ve compiled a list of the top social media platforms.

Specifically, we ranked the most popular social media networks based on the number of users and monthly traffic data.

(Traffic data was obtained using Semrush unless otherwise stated.)

All traffic data is estimated based on the most recent available data.

According to the latest available data, Facebook is now the world's most popular and widely used social media platform. With over 3 billion monthly active users, approximately 37% of the world’s population uses Facebook at least once per month.

However, Facebook is not used worldwide. Social media bans are commonplace, and the platform is blocked in China, Iran, North Korea, Myanmar, Russia, Turkmenistan, and Uganda.

With 2.7 billion users, YouTube has dropped to the third most popular social network, just behind WhatsApp.

Social media networks that focus on short-form video content are growing quickly. This includes Instagram and TikTok. Sora 2 is the newest short form video social media app that's been hyped. However, with 2 million active users per month, it's tiny compared to the big players.

Messenger applications like WhatsApp, Messenger, and Telegram have also quickly climbed this list over the past few years after adding (or improving) their short-form video features.

Meanwhile, new social startups are always launching. Check out our social startup directory to see the companies with the fastest growth in this space (and explore other industries, too).  

Ranking Social Media Network Company Monthly Active Users (MAUs) Monthly Organic Traffic
1 Facebook Meta 3.07 billion 9 billion
2 WhatsApp Meta 3 billion 2.6 billion
2 Instagram Meta 3 billion 5.6 billion
4 YouTube Alphabet 2.7 billion 48.6 billion
5 TikTok ByteDance 1.67 billion 2 billion
6 WeChat (Weixin) Sina Corporation 1.4 billion 4 million
7 Telegram Telegram 1 billion 444.1 million
7 Messenger Meta 1 billion 4 million
9 Snapchat Snap Inc 943 million 178.3 million
10 Viber Rakuten 820 million 12 million
11 Douyin ByteDance 770 million 85.4 million
12 Kuaishou Kuaishou 731.1 million 3.7 million
13 Spotify Tencent 713 million 731.6 million
14 Baidu Baidu 708 million 426.8 million
15 X (Twitter) X Corp. 611 million 3.8 billion
16 Pinterest Pinterest 600 million 1.2 billion
17 Weibo Sina 578 million 38.9 million
18 QQ Tencent 560 million 160.4 million
19 Qzone Tencent 532 million -
20 Reddit Reddit 500 million 4.8 billion
21 Quora Quora 400 million 414.1 million
21 Threads Meta 400 million 197.5 million
23 Bilibili Bilibili 376 million 436.2 million
24 Teams Microsoft 320 million -
25 LinkedIn Microsoft 310 million 1.4 billion
26 Vimeo Vimeo 300 million 69.2 million
27 Twitch Amazon 240 million 1.1 billion
28 Discord Discord 231 million 761.8 million
29 Xiaohongshu (RedNote) Xiaohongshu 200 million 51.5 million
30 ShareChat Mohalla Tech 180 million 4.8 million
31 Line Naver 178 million 177.5 million
32 Tumblr Automattic 135 million 148.1 million
33 Medium A Medium Corporation 125.7 million 104.8 million
34 VK (Vkontakte) Gazprombank, Sonaz 91.8 million 625.6 million
35 Rumble Rumble Inc. 47 million 40.4 million

Figures are accurate as of December 2025., 

Not surprisingly, this list includes many of the big names in the social media space, like Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.
If you're looking for a social media dashboard to manage your workflow, the social media tools in Semrush include all the tools you need for Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, X, Pinterest, and your Google Business Profile.



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