You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.

The chart below shows ten most popular social media applications in the world in 2022. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

Write at least 150 words.

The popularity of ten globally recognised social media platforms and the way in which they were downloaded in 2022 are picturised in the given chart.

Overall, it is clear that TikTok was the most popular of all the ten, and more people used Google Play to download their favourite applications than App Store in this particular year.

Analysing the top two favourite downloads of the year on Google Play, 175 million downloads were there for TikTok, just 5 million more than that of Instagram. Between 125 and 150 million downloads were recorded for the next three popular applications, namely Facebook, WhatsApp and Telegram. Except Shopee, which had 110 million downloads on Google Play, the rest (Snapchat, Messenger, Capcut and Spotify) had downloads ranging from 45 to 95 million.

In case of App Store downloads too, TikTok stood first with 75 million downloads. The next two most downloaded applications on App Store were Instagram and WhatsApp, and that were 50 million and 45 million respectively. Shopee and Snapchat were the least downloaded (10 million each), while the rest of the social media platform downloads ranged between 15 and 35 million.

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