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The Most Popular Social Media Apps of 2021 According to Gravitee's Interactive Widget
USA's app downloads rate shown by Gravitee displayed some of the most prominent apps that were downloaded.
13:31 12 January 2022
As we step into the digital era, technology becomes more and more intertwined in our lives. With each new advancement, it seems like there’s a new way to connect and share with others.
The rise of mobile technology has brought social networking to the masses. To illustrate, every day over one billion people log in to Facebook through their cell phones or other digital devices. These online apps have transformed our lives tremendously in so many ways, which is especially obvious when it comes to the way we communicate with others.
USA's app downloads rate shown by Gravitee displayed some of the most prominent apps that were downloaded with the top 3 - which may not come as a surprise - being TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram.
Frequently Downloaded Apps from 2021
TikTok
TikTok is a very popular social platform that operates as a way to share funny videos. By 2021, TikTok managed to surpass an astonishing surplus of 834,000,000 downloads.
With that projected live download rate, it would approximately take 2.52 days for the whole population of the USA to download this app.
Facebook was launched as a social platform to allow people to connect all across the world and its popularity has never looked back since its inception with there being more than 680,518,000 downloads.
Some interesting statistics about these projected live download rates from 2021 include that it would approximately take 18 days for the whole of Canada’s entire population to download this app, while it would take Japan 5.38 days.
This social media platform had more than 580,453,000 downloads in 2021 and users will mainly use this for a variety of purposes. Nevertheless, this social media platform remains extremely important for both businesses and consumers.
It’s a great tool that can enable organisations to appeal to a wider target audience since it is a platform where consumers are regularly influenced about their consuming-decision making process.
Some key Instagram statistics include that 51% of users are female and 49% male, 30 minutes per day is the average daily use, and 81% of users use Instagram to research products and services.
Zoom
This application was founded in 2011 but was not until the COVID19 pandemic where this app grew into the public eye. By 2021, the USA download rate had surpassed 380,000,000.
Over the past couple of years, Zoom rose in popularity at the height of the pandemic because people had to resort to using this tool as a means of communication between friends and family since various lockdown restrictions in different countries meant that people could not go out and participate in their usual hobbies.
In the education sector, Zoom was a great way that still enabled some teachers to regularly communicate with their students and teach online classes not only for universities and colleges but also for primary and secondary schools as well.
Conclusion
Gravitees’ API Management solution allows businesses to document, discover and publish their APIs and effortlessly manage their lifecycles. Their 2021 webpage about the number of downloads of the USA’s most popular apps has shown that social media apps remain prominent and in society today, they’ve greatly affected the way we communicate with each other daily.
Nevertheless, while such frequent app usage can be great as it allows to connect with other people and assess the activity of friends and family of what they’ve been up to recently, it is also important to not neglect the serious dangers that daily app downloads can bring as well such as social media addiction and depression.