History of Social Media (2000-present)

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  • Lunarstorm

    In 2000 Lunarstorm was invented.

  • Wikipedia

    Wikipedia
    In 2001 Wikipedia was invented.

  • Friendster

    Friendster
    In 2002 Friendster was invented.

  • PhotoBucket

    PhotoBucket
    In 2003 PhotoBucket was invented.

  • MySpace

    MySpace
    In 2003 MySpace was invented. Three years after MySpace launched it was the most popular social network in the world.

  • LinkedIn

    LinkedIn
    In 2003 LinkedIn was invented. This was devoted to businesses.

  • Digg

    Digg
    In 2004 Digg was invented. Users can share links to anything online & other users had the power to vote the content up or down.

  • Flickr

    Flickr
    In 2004 Flickr was invented. Flickr claims they can host more than 3.6 billion images.

  • YouTube

    YouTube
    In 2005 YouTube was invented. This allowed users to upload and watch videos through YouTube.

  • Twitter

    Twitter
    In 2006 Twitter was invented. Although Twitter was invented in 2006 in gained a lot of popularity in 2007. It has a number of famous celebrities and athletes who use it.

  • Facebook

    Facebook
    In 2006 Facebook was invented. Most of Facebook’s growth was in the fall of 2007. Today, it is the sixth most visited site in the US and is the top photo sharing site with over 4.1 billion images.

  • Tumblr

    Tumblr
    In 2007 Tumblr was invented.