In this data visualization video I look at the most popular social media networks based on active accounts during that time. I also did not include streaming video platforms such as YouTube and Twitch, I will post those in a different video. These stats come from Wikipedia, archive.org and from Google Books searches. I did not include those platforms that did not report stats.I also reduced the numbers to take into account fake and duplicate accounts. Some of the data includes approximate numbers as the data available skipped years. In the video I included screenshots of certain platforms from the list as they looked during that particular year. The platform thumbnails: 1997 - Bolt Founded as a community for teens 1998 - Classmates Biggest collection of yearbooks online 1999 - Open Diary Introduced commenting and privacy settings 2000 - theGlobe 2001 - PlanetAll Bought and killed by Amazon 2002 - LiveJournal Still Popular in Russia for Microblogging 2003 - MySpace 2004 - Orkut From Google, became popular in Brazil 2007 - Hi5 As popular as MySpace 2008 - VKontakte Russian clone of Facebook 2009 - Facebook Infamous update of news feed 2010 - Tagged Originally a social network for teens 2011 - Tumblr 2012 - QZone Social network from China 2013 - OK.ru Russian social network 2014 - Reddit 2015 - Vine Short looping video clips 2016 - Snapchat 2017 - WeChat Reaches 1 million mini apps 2018 - TikTok 2019 - Facebook Testing redesign Thank you for watching. Let me know which platforms have been your favorite?