The most popular social media platform in this survey was Telegram with over 20M users.<\/p><\/div>\n

Based on the results of this survey, 53% of the population who are over 18 years old are active on at least one social media platform and there are 54M people who are over 18 years old in Iran.<\/p>\n

With a simple calculation, we can deduct that 28.5M people over 18 years old are using social media in Iran. The most popular social media platforms in this survey were Telegram, Instagram, WhatsApp, Line, FaceBook, Twitter, WeChat, Tango and Google Plus. The most popular social media platform in this survey was Telegram with over 20M users.<\/p>\n

47% of the participants are from Tehran and are also using this app. WhatsApp, Instagram and Line were the most used apps in this category respectively after Telegram.<\/p>\n

According to this survey, people who are single show more interest in using social media platforms compared to married ones. But the married people are the majority of social media users since their population is the biggest. According to this survey 62.7% of the Iranian users on these social media platforms are married and 27.4% are single.<\/p>\n

Age is also an important parameter in this survey and has an inverse relationship to social media usage, meaning that older people tend to use social media less. 34.3% of the Social Media users are between the age of 18 to 29, 41.8% between 30 to 49 and 23.9% are over 50 years old. According to ISPA, 55% of men and 51% of women are using social media platforms.<\/p>\n