What social software is popular abroad and what is the most commonly used social software by foreigners?

Facebook

Twitter

LinkedIn

Pinterest

Google+

Tumblr

Instagram

1. Facebook is an online social networking site. The name Facebook comes from the student roster at the beginning of the new school year. Facebook was founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and his Harvard roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskowitz and Chris Hughes.

At first, Facebook was limited to Harvard students, but soon it expanded to the Boston area, the Ivy League, Stanford University and other universities. Facebook stipulates that only people over 13 years old can register as a member on Facebook, and users must register before they can browse Facebook.

When you sign up, Facebook requires you to create a profile and add other users as friends and exchange information, including automatic notifications when they update their profiles.

2. Twitter is an American online social networking service and microblogging service website. Twitter, known as Twitter in Chinese, only allows users to send 140-character text messages. The service is also called "Tweet".

On July 15, 2006, Jack Dorsey launched the social networking site Twitter. Twitter quickly became popular around the world. In 2012, Twitter had more than 500 million registered users and posted more than 340 million Weibo posts every day. The system processed more than 1.6 billion search queries every day. Since its launch, Twitter has become one of the ten most used websites on the Internet and has been called the "texting of the Internet."

3. LinkedIn is an American professional social networking website. It was created in December 2002 and launched in Monica, California on May 5, 2003. LinkedIn is mainly used for professional networking.

As of January 2013, LinkedIn has more than 200 million users in more than 200 countries and regions. LinkedIn has English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Japanese, Czech, Polish, Korean, Indonesian, Malay and other languages.

According to Quantcast reports, LinkedIn has 21.4 million unique monthly visitors in the United States and 47.6 million monthly unique visitors globally. In June 2011, LinkedIn had 33.9 million unique visitors, a year-on-year increase of 63%, surpassing MySpace in one fell swoop. LinkedIn filed for an initial public offering in January 2011.

4.Pinterest is the world’s largest picture social sharing website. Pinterest allows users to create and manage collections of images on topics such as events, interests, and hobbies. Pinterest was created by Ben Silberman, Paul Sciarra, and Evan Sharp. Pinterest is managed by Cold Brew Labs. Pinterest is funded by a small group of entrepreneurs and inventors.

Pinterest is similar to early social bookmarking systems such as David Galbraith's 2005 Wists project. Pinterest allows users to store and categorize images. Popular categories are travel, cars, food, movies, humor, home design, sports, fashion and art. Pinterest began construction in December 2009 and launched a closed beta version in March 2010.

5. Google+ is a multilingual social network and identity service website. Google+ is owned and operated by Google Inc. Google+ is sometimes called Google Plus+. Today, Google+ is the second largest social networking site in the world, having surpassed Twitter in January 2013.

As of December 2012, Google+ had 5 million registered users, of which 2.35 million were active users. In November 2011, Google+ was integrated into Google account creation services such as Google Mail.

On July 14, 2011, Google announced that Google+ already had 10 million users. Four weeks later, Google+ had 25 million unique visitors. According to the ComScore report, the largest market for Google+ is the United States, followed by India. In October 2011, Google+ had 40 million users.

6. Tumblr is one of the largest microblogging platforms and social networking sites in the world. Tumblr is owned and operated by Tumblr, Inc. Tumblr allows users to publish multimedia and short-form blog content. As of April 13, 2013, Tumblr had more than 102 million blogs.

Tumblr is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, USA.

As of April 2013, Tumblr had 165 employees. Tumblr was developed in 2006, and Karp had been interested in tumblelogs (short-form blogs) for some time. After a year of waiting, Karp and developer Marco Amonte began creating the tumblelogging platform.

Tumblr was launched in February 2007, and within two weeks, Tumblr gained 75,000 users. Marco Amonte left Tumblr in September 2010 to focus on Instapaper.

7. Instagram is an application that provides online photo sharing, video sharing and social networking services. The program allows users to take photos and videos and share them on various social networks , such as: Facebook, Weibo, QQ space sharing and Flickr sharing.

The program's distinguishing feature is that it limits photos to square shapes and uses images similar to Kodak point-and-shoot cameras and Polaroids, in contrast to the 16:9 aspect ratio now commonly used in mobile device cameras. model. Users can also record and share short clips lasting up to 15 seconds.

Instagram was created and launched in October 2010 by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. The program's service quickly gained popularity, and by April 2012 the site had 100 million active users. The Instagram app can be downloaded through the Apple App Store, Google Play and Windows Phone stores.

At first, the app only supported iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch; in April 2012, it added support for Android camera phones. Third-party Instagram apps are available for BlackBerry 10 and Nokia Symbian devices.