15 social networks with the most active users in 2015

Facebook的拥有并经营着世界基础上的月活跃用户（MAU）前六名的社交网络中的四个。只有两个其他社交媒体服务，都是由中国的国有腾讯,甚至接近,让Facebookmoney. The following list details the year's most used social networks, and provides specific MAU numbers (where available).

Facebook was the first social network to surpass a billion members, and it closed the2015年第三季度用1.55十亿的月活跃用户（MAU），其中包括1.39十亿移动MAU。Facebook的每日活跃用户数量也令人印象深刻，1.01十亿每日活跃用户（DAU）在第三季度末，包括8.94亿DAU移动。事实上，社交网络将继续report impressive numbersacross the board.

WhatsApp remains true to its original mission of building a simple messaging app that works across all mobile platforms, and relatively little changed within the app since it first launched in 2009. The messaging application surpassed 900 million MAU in early September, according to a从该公司的联合创始人兼首席执行官贾恩·科姆在Facebook上张贴。When Facebook acquired the app for $21.8 billion in February 2014, WhatsApp had more than 450 million MAU.

Messaging application Tencent QQ, commonly known as "QQ" or "QZone," had 860 million MAU at the end of the2015年第三季度。Chinese firm Tencent Holdings Limited owns and operates the service, and the vast majority of QQ users reside in China and other Asian countries. QQ was first released in early 1999 as an IM app.

Facebook的Messenger的独立IM应用发布于2011年8月，但它并没有真正流行起来，直到该公司被迫会员下载，致力于在2014年短信透过Facebook Messenger有7亿MAU 6月上旬单独的应用程序，根据创始人和CEO马克·扎克伯格，亿MAU，其中10个前几个星期扎克伯格的公告中加入了服务。

微信，another app from China's Tencent, reported 650 million MAU at the end of the2015年第三季度。微信的用户中，约11％位于中国以外在的结束第二季度。短信应用在2011年首次成为可用的，目前它增加了每月约1000万MAU。

当Facebook在2012年4月收购的Instagram十亿为$ 1，照片共享应用程序有大约27万个总注册用户。Instagram的宣布，它已surpassed 400 million MAU在2015年9月，100万是在九个月领先了官方声明中加入了服务。该应用程序目前增加了每月超过1000万MAU。

Twitter已经被批评为落后的用户增长在最近几天，但它仍然是世界上最大的社交网络之一。该公司关闭了2015年第三季度与3.2亿MAU，和那些人的大约80％至少每月一次访问移动设备上的服务，根据公司。

线，基于日本通讯服务，预计将在今年年底超过700万个的注册用户有。线reported 212 million MAUin September 2015. In 2011, 15 engineers working for Korean search provider Naveer developed the app, and though it has since become its own separate service, Line remains a Naveer subsidiary.

新浪微博，在中国最受欢迎的网站之一，是一种Facebook和Twitter的混搭。在今年上半年结束该公司表示，它有2.12亿MAU，占36％比去年同期增长。移动用户在2015年6月由公司总MAU的85％，根据公司。新浪微博同一个月内达到了平均9300万的DAU。

Pinterest的surpassed 100 million MAU in September, according to纽约时报，and the digital scrapbook continues to增加更多的机制购物和广告。

LinkedInsays it closed the third quarter of 2015 with 396 million registered users, 100 million of which count as MAU. Within a few weeks of that official announcement, the professional social network超过注册用户达4亿多。

Viber的，a messaging and VoIP app originally released in late 2010, closed the2015年第三季度有2.49亿注册用户1亿MAU。Rakuten，an ecommerce company based in Japan, acquired the service for $900 million in February 2014.

Skype, one of the earliest VoIP and video chat services, has not provided updated user numbers since 2014, so while it may have more MAU than other services placed above it in this ranking, the lack of clarity earns it an "honorable mention" in the list.

Skype的有3亿MAU在2014年2月，根据公司博客文章。在time, Skype said it hosted more than a billion message or voice sessions each month, and its users spent as many as 2 billion minutes using Skype each day.

谷歌自2013年底还没有公布在自己的Google+用户群号码，但该平台在近几年艰巨的努力，它也会在本次排名的荣誉奖。

谷歌公布3亿MAU 2013年10月，但后来拒绝提供其用户进一步的细节。（该公司最近还削成减少Google+为了突出群体和主题）。

Snapchat, one of the earliest and most successful "ephemeral," or disappearing, message apps, evolved into a medium for live storytelling, with curated user video and produced segments from leading online publishers. The privately held company has been tight lipped on specific numbers, so instead of ranking higher, it too receives an honorable mention here.

该应用程序被认为有200多万MAU和Snapchat联合创始人兼CEO埃文·施皮格尔说，该公司“在接近发达市场亿日活跃用户，”在an interview in May。