Top Social Media Websites and their features

Social Media websites/ Apps

·       A social media website is an online platform that people use to build social networks or social relations with others to share thoughts, interests, and activities.

     These websites are also called social networking sites ( SNS ) and easily available in desktop and mobile Apps.

Nowadays people are using tons of social media sites, some of the top sites are mentioned below.

Top Social Media Websites

1.Tik Tok

· The most popular app in 2020

. 1B + downloads on Playstore

· Also known as Douyin in chines

· Owned by ByteDance(China)

· 500  million monthly users

· Developed in 200 days

· Available in 75 languages

· Launched in 2018

· Working on Android and ios

· www.tiktok.com

· www.douyin.com

Features

• Short Videos: The TikTok mobile app allows users to create a short video of 15 seconds and edit wit a background music before sharing with others on TikTok or other social platforms
• Duet Feature: This feature allows users to film a video aside another video
• React Feature: This feature allows users to film their reaction to a specific video
• Security: The app allows users to set their accounts as private, allowing only people they approve to view their content

                                                                        

1.Facebook

  

·       The most popular site in the world
·       Founded by Mark Zuckerberg
·       2.2  billion monthly users
·       Lanched in 2004
·       Also available in mobile app
·       www.facebook.com

      

Features

Home: A collection of posts from friends

§  Profile: Allows members to create and edit their own profile

§  Friends: Allows members to Add and find friends

§  Posts: Allows members to Post pictures, and audio/video clips on timeline

§  Reactions to the posts: The members can Like, Comment or Share the post

§  Messenger: Chatting with the friends through messenger

§  Create: Allows user to create their own Ad, group Pages and Events

§  Online Games: Allows user to play games online like 8 Ball Pool

§  Live Video:  Allow members to create and share their live broadcasting

§  Subsidiaries: Instagram and whatsapp are childs of facebook

2.Google+
                           

·       Pronounced as Google Plus

·       Owned and operated by Google

·       Launched in 2011

·       111million active users 

·       www.plus.google.com   

   

Features

§  Posts: for posting status updates

§  Circles: For sharing information with different groups of people

§  Sparks: For offering videos and articles

§  Hangout and Huddles: for video chatting with a friend or a group of friends

3.Twitter

·      News and social networking site

·       Mostly used by educated people

·       Send and reply text messages in form of tweets

·       330 million active users

·       Launched in 2006

·       Also available in mobile app

·       www.twitter.com

Features

§  Profile: Creating and editing your own profile

§  Home: A collection of tweets made by twitter users you follow

§  Tweets: Small messages generally include 140+ characters

§  Notifications: A list of activity related to twitter account including followers, retweets, and likes

§ Messages: This is inbox for direct messages to a twitter user

§  Following: This is the list of twitter users you follow

§  Followers: This is list of people who follow you

§  Likes: This shows all the tweets you have liked

§  Retweets: This is a reshare of original tweet

4.Whatsapp

·       Whatsapp is messaging and social media app

·       Mobile application also available for Desktop PC

·       Launched in 2009

·       900 million active users

·       Working on operating system like Android, iOS, Windows Phone, BlackBerry,      

·       Subsidiary of Facebook            

·       CEO is Jan Koum

·       www.whatsapp.com

Features

§  Messaging: text and voice messaging

§  Calls: voice and video calls

§  Contact List: Connected with phone contact list

§  Group: Making friends groups

§  Sharing: Sharing photos, audio and video clips with individuals and groups

• Group Call: Updated version supports 8 participants for video call.
• Dark Mode: Recently WhatsApp introduced dark mode.

5.Instagram

·       Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook

·       Mobile application also available for Desktop PC

·       Launched in 2010

·       700 million active users

·       Working on operating system like Android, iOS, and Windows

·       Subsidiary of Facebook            

·       Available in 36 languages      

·       www.Instagram.com

Features

§  Home: Shows the photos and videos posted by followers

§  Profile: Allows the user to change profile picture, username, email and phone number

§  Search: Allows user to search photos, videos, stories, posts and people

§  Explore: Used to search photos and videos

§  Photographic Filters: Used to apply to photos to change the appearance

§  Video: Used to share video up to 10 minutes

§  Instagram Dierct: Used to send a message to a specific person you follow

§  Instagram Stories: This feature allows users to post photos and videos that vanish after 24 hours

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