The given line graph illustrates the total number of people engaged on various social platforms and messaging applications – Facebook, WhatsApp, WeChat, Twitter, and Instagram- over a five year period.
Overall, the number of Facebook users is the highest over five years. Twitter and WeChat user also experienced significant growth. Meanwhile, Whatsapp and Instagram were introduced later than the other sources but gained immense public attention.
Facebook has the majority number of users with 600 million in 2010, increasing uniformly to 1600 million in 2015. Twitter had no users in 2010. However, the number grew gradually to approximately 350 million users in 2015. WeChat was exposed to the public in 2011 and had negligible account holders. But this figure rocketed to around 750 million in 2015.
Whatsapp and Instagram were exhibited to the population in 2013. The initial number of whatsapp and instagram users was 400 million and 200 million respectively. The number of whatsapp users climbed to approximately 900 million in two years. The number of Instagram users saw a slight incline to 400 million in 2015.
