By Leslie Berland (@leslieberland) for Twitter

The most-tweeted topic this year? It wasn’t the American election. Twitter’s top three topics included the Olympics and Pokemon Go.

By Shannon Greenwood, Andrew Perrin, and Maeve Duggan for Pew Research Centre

An overview of total users and growth in 2016 for five networks.

By Sheida Newman for Facebook

The trending topics on Facebook for 2016, which are invisible to most users. On this platform, the election came out on top. Overlapping with Twitter, Facebook’s top three topics for 2016 were the election, Brazilian politics, and Pokemon Go.

By Alejandra Guzman (@petiteguz) for World Economic Forum

Social media is shaping global economics, politics, and more. This in-depth study by the World Economic Forum details how social has impacted people around the world this year, and how it might evolve in 2017.