Up from 650m this year.
UK-based analyst Juniper Research says the rise of mobile social media users will be powered by the continued growth of those adopting smartphones and geosocial network use.
The 1.3 billion mobile social network users expected for 2016 is more than all of the users across every platform today, according to the report.
The integration of location-based tech into social media has proven to be popular, as platforms like Foursquare occupy the whereabouts of more than 15 million users.
The report says the union of social, local and mobile tech has bloomed because people don't just want to know what their friends are doing, but also where and what other activities are in the area.
Further results show that mobile dating has taken on the geosocial tech with location and instant messaging methods. The mobile dating market is predicted to be worth $2.3 billion in 2016, up from $1 billion in 2011.
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Charlotte Miller, report author, said: "Location features on smartphones are opening up a new side of both dating and social networking. Adding location features to a service makes the service local to the user.
"This will be a key feature for mobile dating services – why send emails to someone hundreds of miles away when you can exchange instant messages with someone only hundreds of meters away?"
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