62.3% of Humanity Uses Social Media

It seems that more and more people are turning to social media for connecting, researching, and communicating. And the impact is still growing!

In fact, the total population of active social media users has risen to more than 5 billion, or about 62.3 percent of humanity, according to a study published yesterday.

The number rose 5.6 percent last year, outpacing the 0.9 percent increase in the world’s population, said the report by media monitoring company Meltwater and social media agency We are Social. 

The social network with the most users was Meta’s Facebook with 2.19 billion. Meta’s Instagram was next with 1.65 billion, narrowly trailed by TikTok at 1.56 billion.

The report warns that precise numbers are hard to come by because of automated accounts or people using different identities.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On Wednesday, Premier League leaders Liverpool stepped up their title bid with a 4-1 rout of Chelsea.

Diogo Jota got the scoring started following a Conor Bradley assist in the twenty-third minute, and then the 20-year-old doubled the lead with his first Liverpool goal sixteen minutes later. Dominik Szoboszlai added a third after the break – 65th minute – before the Blues managed to put in their only goal six minutes after that. Then, Luis Diaz added a fourth with a close-range strike in the seventy-ninth minute. 

Liverpool head to third-placed Arsenal on Sunday for another test of their title credentials.