Most popular social media apps in the U.S. 2019, by monthly sessions

Published by Laura Ceci, Aug 25, 2023
This statistic gives information on the most popular social networking apps in the United States as of September 2019, ranked by average number of monthly usage sessions. During the measured period, mobile Facebook users accessed the social networking platform an average of 159.55 times per month. Instagram users generated 68.80 usage session per month.

Most popular mobile social networking apps in the United States as of September 2019, by number of monthly sessions

CharacteristicAverage sessions per user per month
Messenger by Google 261.28
Facebook (main) 159.55
WhatsApp 143.35
Snapchat 122.57
Discord - Chat for Games 116.56
Telegram 111.92
Facebook Messenger 77.86
Kik 73.42
GroupMe 69.38
Instagram (main) 68.8
LINE 67.81
Google Hangouts (main) 65.17
WeChat 55.05
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Release date

November 2019

Region

United States

Survey time period

September 2019

Age group

18 years and older

Supplementary notes

Data was gathered from 20,000 U.S. panelists that use and own multiple devices.

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