Which telco has more users than Twitter?

China Mobile has more users than Twitter. Those nearly 1 billion people are all paying their hard-earned cash for the service. You can find below the comparison of the Top 20 mobile network operators measured by the number of subscriptions and the Top 20 social platforms measured by monthly active users:

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1. Facebook - 3,030 million

2. YouTube - 2,562 million

3. WhatsApp - 2,000 million

4. Instagram - 2,000 million

5. WeChat - 1,313 million

6. TikTok - 1,090 million

7. Messenger - 1,030 million

8. China Mobile - 974 million

9. LinkedIn - 930 million

10. Snapchat - 750 million

11. Douyin - 730 million

12. Telegram - 700 million

13. Kuaishou - 640 million

14. Weibo - 586 million

15. QQ - 572 million

16. X (Twitter) - 541 million

17. Qzone - 517 million

18. Reddit - 500 million

19. Bharti Airtel - 496 million

20. Pinterest - 450 million

21. Reliance Jio - 436 million

22. China Telecom - 390 million

23. China Unicom - 320 million

24. América Móvil - 307 million

25. MS Teams - 300 million

26. Quora - 300 million

27. MTN Group - 289 million

28. Telefónica - 277 million

29. Vodafone Group - 274 million

30. Orange - 241 million

31. Vodafone Idea - 230 million

32. VEON - 214 million

33. Deutsche Telekom - 212 million

34. AT&T - 210 million

35. Telkomsel - 176 million

36. Telenor - 172 million

37. Axiata Group - 163 million

38. e& - 159 million

39. Vodacom - 132 million

40. Ooredoo - 121 million
    As of 6th August 2023. Telcos are marked with bold.

China Mobile is a telecom giant established in 1997 and listed on the New York Stock Exchange the same year. It has 974 million mobile customers and 272 million wireline broadband customers. Last year China Mobile accumulated over 600 million 5G package customers. It has a workforce of 450,698 that produced an annual revenue of RMB 937 billion (equivalent to USD 130 billion), with 86.6% attributed to telecom services (as of 31st December 2022).

Source:

1. Wikipedia - List of mobile network operators

2. Wikipedia - List of social platforms with at least 100 million active users

3. China Mobile Annual Report 2022

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