Forbes India 15th Anniversary Special

Despite waning popularity, Facebook is the king of social media

Published: Aug 4, 2017 07:25:31 AM IST
Updated: Aug 1, 2017 05:49:05 PM IST


241 mln is the number of Facebook users in India—the largest audience country for the social media giant, surpassing the US—according to The Next Web report
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Google searches by Indians with the keyword ‘Facebook’ have shrunk to just a quarter of what they were at its peak in February 2013. Yet it is head and shoulders above Instagram, which overtook Twitter as the second-most searched-for social media platform last year.

Infographic: Pradeep Belhe

(This story appears in the 18 August, 2017 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)