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5,660,000,000
5,660,000,000 -- active social media identities for Global social media users (2026)
There are 5.66 billion active social media identities worldwide according to DataReportal Digital 2026.
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5,660,000,000
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https://www.socialcrawl.dev/blog/building-ai-agent-social-media-monitoring ↗
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Global social media users: 5,660,000,000 active social media identities. Source: DataReportal (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/global-social-media-identities-2026
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