📱 Worldwide Leaders in 2020

1️⃣ #TikTok 850m
2️⃣ #WhatsApp 600m
3️⃣ #Facebook 540m
4️⃣ #Instagram 503m
5️⃣ #Zoom 477m

See which apps were the top performers in their respective categories in 🌎🌍🌏 & 🇺🇸
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​​🗞 News Use Across Social Media Platforms in 2020

As #SocialMedia companies struggle to deal with misleading information on their platforms about the #USElection, the #COVID19 pandemic and more, a large portion of Americans continue to rely on these sites for news. About half of US adults (53%) say they get news from social media “often” or “sometimes,” and this use is spread out across a number of different sites, according to a Pew Research Center survey.

Among 11 social media sites asked about as a regular source of news, #Facebook sits at the top, with about a third (36%) of Americans getting news there regularly. #YouTube comes next, with 23% of US adults regularly getting news there. #Twitter serves as a regular news source for 15% of US adults.

Other social media sites are less likely to be regular news sources. About one-in-ten Americans or fewer report regularly getting news on #Instagram (11%), #Reddit (6%), #Snapchat (4%), #LinkedIn (4%), #TikTok (3%), #WhatsApp (3%), #Tumblr (1%) and #Twitch (1%).

These lower percentages for news use are in some cases related to the fact that fewer Americans report using them at all, compared with the shares who use Facebook and YouTube.

Read more on Pew Research Center.

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📱 Top Apps Worldwide for January 2021 by Downloads

#Telegram was the most downloaded non-gaming app worldwide for January 2021 with more than 63 million installs, 3.8 times its downloads in January 2020. The countries with the largest number of Telegram installs were India 🇮🇳 at 24%, followed by Indonesia 🇮🇩 at 10%.

#TikTok was the second most installed non-gaming app worldwide last month with close to 62 million installs. The countries with the largest number of TikTok installs were from #Douyin in China 🇨🇳 at 17%, followed by the United States 🇺🇸 at 10%. #Signal, #Facebook, and #WhatsApp rounded out the top five most installed non-gaming apps worldwide for the month.

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PS. I'm writing about #Clubhouse in today's newsletter: https://prs.pctvix.co/3cQBm26

🌐 Internet is just a fad — Daily Mail (5th December 2000)

and then
#Email is just a fad...
#Facebook is just a fad...
#Instagram is just a fad...
#TikTok is just a fad...

Is #Clubhouse another fad?
🐦 source.

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