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Understanding Social Media Platforms

This next section will help you to understand and explore some of the most popular social media platforms.

Twitter

  • Micro blogging social site that limits each post to 280 characters
  • There are 16.45 million Twitter users in the UK
  • 6,000 tweets on average happen every second
  • 326 million monthly active users

Facebook

  • Mobile is Facebook’s cash cow – 1.57 billion daily active mobile users
  • 44% of UK population use Facebook every day
  • Users share 1 million links every 20 minutes
  • 2.23 billion monthly active users

TikTok

  • Create, share and discover short videos
  • 13 million active UK users
  • Downloaded one million times a month in the UK
  • Daily average use 41 minutes
  • 689 million monthly active users

Instagram

  • Social sharing app all around pictures and 60 second videos
  • Many brands participate through the use of hashtags and posting pictures consumers can relate to
  • Most followed brand is National Geographic
  • 1 billion monthly active users

Subsections

  1. Facebook
  2. Twitter
  3. TikTok
  4. Instagram

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