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What are the most popular social media platforms?

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Thinking about each social media platform, what do you think are the advantages and disadvantages of each of them? Complete the table below.

Advantages Disadvantages

Facebook

Twitter

Instagram

YouTube

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Which global celebrity do you think has the most Twitter followers?

Justin Biber - 97,966,420 followers (Figures July 2017)

Katy Perry - 100,739,878 followers (Figures July 2017)

Taylor Swift - 85,392,096 followers (Figures July 2017)

Did you know that 500 million tweets are sent every single day?

82% of those are sent from people’s mobile phones.

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Can you work out the order of the top ten global celebrity Twitter profiles? (Figures July 2017)

Celebrity

Number of followers

  • Katy Perry @katyperry
  • Justin Bieber @justinbieber
  • Barack Obama @BarackObama
  • Taylor Swift @taylorswift13
  • Rihanna @rihanna
  • Ellen DeGeneres @TheEllenShow
  • xoxo, Gaga @ladygaga
  • Justin Timberlake @jtimberlake
  • Britney Spears @britneyspears
  • Cristiano Ronaldo @Cristiano
  • 100,739,878
  • 97,966,420
  • 91,791,357
  • 85,392,096
  • 74,942,035
  • 70,461,170
  • 67,283,519
  • 61,540,185
  • 54,745,801
  • 54,407,151
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Extended question: Despite Katy Perry having over 100,000,000 followers, she only follows 198 people. Why do you think that is?

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How much of an Instagram addict are you? Which images do you think each artist uploaded to Instagram?