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Social Media Birth - Six Degrees
The first social media site that everyone can agree actually was social media was a website called Six Degrees. It was named after the ‘six degrees of separation’ theory and lasted from 1997 to 2001. Six Degrees allowed users to create a profile and then friend other users. Six Degrees even allowed those who didn’t register as users to confirm friendships and connected quite a few people this way.
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LinkedIn - Launched
LinkedIn is a business and employment-oriented service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Founded on December 28, 2002, and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking, including employers posting jobs and job seekers posting their CVs. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinkedIn -
MySpace - Launched
Myspace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. Myspace was the largest social networking site in the world, from 2005 to 2009. It is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California.
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Facebook - Launched
Facebook got its start as a site that was created specifically for Harvard students by Mark Zuckerberg. It then spread to other Ivy League colleges. In 2005, it was opened to high school students. Then in 2006, it was opened to the public for whoever had an email address. It has come a far way by adding and creating many features it did not originally have. Today, it has over 1.7 billion monthly users.
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YouTube - Launched
youtube.com
YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries
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Twitter - Launched
Twitter is an American online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets". Tweets were originally restricted to 140 characters, but on November 7, 2017, this limit was doubled for all languages except Japanese, Korean, and Chinese.
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Facebook - Newsfeed Debut
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Twitter - Hashtag (#) debut
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Tumblr - Launched
Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking website founded by David Karp in 2007, and owned by Oath Inc. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users' blogs. Bloggers can also make their blogs private.
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Facebook - Like button introduced
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Twitter - New Logo
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Instagram - 1Million users registered
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Pinterest - Launched
Pinterest is a web and mobile application company that operates a software system designed to discover information on the World Wide Web, mainly using images and on a smaller scale, GIFs and videos. The site was founded by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra and Evan Sharp.
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Instagram - Launched
Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, Inc. It was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010 exclusively on iOS.
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Snapchat - Launched
Snapchat is a multimedia messaging app used globally, created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown, former students at Stanford University, and developed by Snap Inc., originally Snapchat Inc. "Snaps" are images that are sent between phones for 10 seconds where a user is able to communicate and create different messages.
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Facebook - 1Billion users
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Facebook - Bought Instagram for $1Billion
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Tinder - Launched
Tinder is a location-based social search mobile app that allows users to like or dislike other users, and allows users to chat if both parties swiped to the right. The app is often used as a hookup app.
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Facebook - Modified Logo
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Twitter - Two factor login verification
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Vine - Launched
Vine was a short-form video hosting service where users could share six-second-long looping video clips. The service was founded in June 2012, and American microblogging website Twitter acquired it in October 2012, before its official launch.
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Instagram - 15 second video feature
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Snapchat - Filters debut
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Instagram - New logo & App design
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Instagram - Video Limit Increased to :60 seconds
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Instagram - Multiple Photos in One Post Feature Introduces
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Twitter - Launches Archive of Vine Videos
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Instagram - Launched IGTV
