What People Are Actually Doing On The Internet In 2013

The numbers may surprise you.

Yesterday Facebook announced that 1.1 billion people use the site every month. But where do others stand? The results are surprising.

For all of Instagram's popularity, Snapchat users upload 110 million more photos per day. Yahoo Mail is more popular than Twitter. And even MySpace is as popular as Spotify.

To get sense of what the internet actually looks like in 2013, we've compiled a list of some of the biggest social media sites and apps. These are official numbers, which means some may be inflated a bit — Google+ counts users in a very generous way, for example. But overall they're a pretty good indication of just how people spend time on the internet now.

Facebook - 1.1 Billion

YouTube - 1 Billion

QQ - 700 Million

Weibo - 503 Million

Google+ - 343 Million

WeChat - 320 Million

Shazam - 300 Million

Yahoo Mail - 281 Million

Skype - 280 Million

Zynga - 232 Million

WhatsApp - 200+ Million

Twitter - 200 Million

Soundcloud - 180 Million

Pandora - 175 Million

Badoo - 172 Million

Tumblr - 170 Million

LinkedIn - 160 Million

Snapchat - 150 million photos uploaded each day

Line - 150 Million

Instagram - 100 Million

Flickr - 87 Million

Yelp - 84 Million

Flipboard - 53 Million

Evernote - 50 Million

Pinterest - 48.7 Million

Kik Messenger - 30 Million

MySpace - 25 Million

Spotify - 24 Million

Path - 10 Million

Instapaper - 2 Million

Most of these figures were compiled using Craig Smith's extremely comprehensive social network/app user list over at ExpandedRamblings.

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