History of Social Media

  • Amazon

    Amazon
    Amazon is a company that you can buy many things off of, from books, to clothes, to many other things. Amazon has invested over 160 billion dollars into the United States to help create job opportunities, fuel growth, and drive innovation. With the wealth of Amazon they are also making changes to protect the planet (go green) .
  • Netflix

    Netflix
    Netflix is the worlds most leading streaming service with over 167 million paid memberships and 190 countries enjoying tv series, documentaries, movies, etc. Netflix allows members to watch shows and movies as much as they want whenever they want with no commercials or advertisements in between. Netflix is mobile so it allows people to watch tv on iPad, tablets, tv, laptops, computers, etc. anywhere and at anytime Netflix is allows available to members.
  • Facebook

    Facebook
    Facebook has become one of the biggest web sites in the world, visited by 400 million people a month. Facebook was known as a site that was an instant hit. In 2008 Facebook's owner Mark Zuckberg ended in a legal battle that ended 65 million dollar settlement. Facebook went mobile in April of 2006. By December of 2006 Facebook had increased membership by 12 million users. Facebook uses a messaging app called messengers that has 1 billions users using the app a month.
  • Youtube

    Youtube
    Youtube was created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. After the first year Youtube was sold for 1.65 billion dollars. The very first youtube video was uploaded April 23, 2005 titled "Me At The Zoo." Since then Youtube has evolved and now has over 23 million channels and 5 billion videos that are watched daily. A lot of people go on youtube to watch music videos, learn film making, and even learn how to certain things such as "How to Dye your hair blonde."
  • Twitter

    Twitter
    Twitter is the world's leading social network platforms. Twitter was created to short messages for groups to the public. Originally Twitter was made for podcasting services but it was not very successful. Once the podcasting did not work they changed the app to give messages to the public with only 280 characters. By 2013 Twitter was valued at 31 billion dollars. Today Twitter has become a primary source for break news and information especially for younger users
  • Uber

    Uber
    Uber was founded in 2009 and became the highest valued private startup company in the world. Uber grew tremendously has a company in 2018 and is now valued at 62 billion dollars. Uber is app that provides driving services for those in need of a ride. Uber also has a food delivery program called "Uber Eats" drivers to pick up food and drop it off at the location given. Uber is big in major cities such as LA, New York City, Atlanta, etc. Uber competes with Lyft which is another driving service.
  • Pinterest

    Pinterest
    Pinterest is a discovery tool that was originally created to allow people to share ideas, inspiration, interests, and projects. Pinterest was created by Ben Silbermann in 2010. Nine months after the launch Pinterest had 10,000 users. Pinterest quickly began breaking records and was on Time Magazine's voted best websites.
  • Instagram

    Instagram
    Instagram is one of the largest growing social media platforms. Instagram began with over one million users two months after its launch. Created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. Instagram became the number one photography app in its first two months. Instagram was bought by facebooking 2012, and now has over 600 million users and is still increasing daily.
  • Poshmark

    Poshmark
    Poshmark is the largest social commerce marketplace for fashion. Anyone is allowed to buy or sell their personal clothes, purses, jewelry, etc. on this app. Poshmark has two billion social connections and 25 million items which are uploaded via mobile phone. There are over 5,000 brands for sale. On postmark you are able to purchase authentic fashion styles for a cheaper price than what it was originally.
  • Snapchat

    Snapchat
    Snapchat is a messaging app that was created in 2011 by Bobby Murphy, Evan Spiegel, and Reggie Brown. Snapchat was originally named "Picaboo" but it eventually was rebranded to Snapchat. The Snapchat App is used as a image and video messaging app. Today many people use snap to show what they are doing in their daily lives and to spread messages about an event, movement etc.
  • Cash App

    Cash App
    Cash App is a payment service and a financial platform. Cash app is a "Peer to peer" service that allows you to send or receive funds to/from your personal bank account. February 18, 2018 this service had a record of 7 million active users. This allowed people to not go to the bank as much and allow them to use the service via mobile devices.
  • TikTok

    TikTok
    TikTok is known as one of the most interesting and most popular social media apps. In September of 2018 TikTok surpassed Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, and Snapchat in monthly installs. TikTok was downloaded over a billion times in 2018, by February 2019 TikTok had 27 million active users in the United States. In 2018 TikTok bought Musically and all Musically account were absurd to TikTok accounts. TikTok is known for its dancing and funny videos and is now worth 75 billion dollars.