The provided bar chart gives information about the average time spent on social media apps – facebook, twitter, instagram, and snapchat – over a 4-year period, commencing from 2016. Units are measured in minutes.
Overall, the average average time spent in all social media platforms experienced an upward trajectory over the period, with the exception of facebook. Despite having started at almost the same with facebook and instagram at the outset, it was twitter that surpassed the all social media apps in 2020. Although the average time spent on snapchat rose considerably in 2019, it then saw a sharp decrease at the end.
Focusing on relatively similar figures first – facebook and instagram stood at around 24 minutes and 23 minutes in 2016, respectively. The former figure witnessed a significant fall, reaching an all-time low of 3 minutes in 2020. Despite a sharp growth to about 42 minutes on instagram in 2017, a figure then fell considerably to around 15 minutes prior to a substantial rise to around 35 minutes in 2020.
In terms of remaining figures – twitter and snapchat accounted for about 21 minutes and 11 minutes at the outset, correspondingly. The figure for twitter saw a continuous increase, reaching its high of around 42 minutes and outstripping the all social media apps in terms of average time spent on them in 2020. Meanwhile, the figure for snapchat also followed the same trend until 2019, reaching an all-time high of 43 minutes, before declining drammatically to 10 minutes at the end.