SensorTower: Twitter's global growth rate reached 16% in the first quarter of 2019, surpassing Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat

Sensor Tower Store Intelligence data shows that the total downloads of the four major social applications in the United States, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat, reached 376 million in the first quarter of the year on the global App Store and Google Play, with an average annual growth rate of 3.1%. Among them, Twitter's new users increased by 16% year-on-year, far ahead of the other three social applications.

In the first quarter, Twitter added 35.5 million new users worldwide, 4.9 million more than the 30.6 million in the first quarter of 2018. Southeast Asia has become the main growth driver for the app, with Indonesia growing 101% year-on-year, Vietnam and the Philippines growing 52% and 50% respectively.

Facebook and Instagram recorded 176 million and 111 million new users, respectively, up 5.2% and 0.04% year-on-year. Snapchat was the only social app with negative growth, with an estimated 53.5 million new users in the first quarter, down 4.1% from 55.8 million new users in the first quarter of 2018.