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The first social media site
In 1997, Sixdegrees.com launched becoming the first prominent social media. On this site, you could have a profile, make connections, and message.
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MySpace launches
Myspace was first launched in 2003 but didn't become really popular until
2008 it reached its peak also with facebook. From 2005-2009 was the largest social media
network in the world. Myspace didn't really last after facebook came about and came
with more features. myspace was just something to post pictures and the first social
media outlook to really give people an inside look of your personal life through pictures
and posts.
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Youtube Beta Site launches
The Beta site launched in May of 2005. Between May of 2005 and December of 2005, it had gathered eight million daily views.
By 2006 it had grown to 100 million videos with 20 million users
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Youtube is created
Youtube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chane, Jawed Karim. Youtube is an online video sharing platform
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1 Million Views!
73% of U.S. regularly visit YouTube and in September of 2005 a Nike commercial was the first video to reach a million views.
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Twtter is born
Twtter is born in 2006 which launched right as FaceBook started to gain popularity. Twtter, later re-named to Twitter, allowed users to send out short updates to their friends.
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Google buys Youtube
Google buys YouTube for $1.65 billion.
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The Hashtag
Arguably the hashtag is what set Twitter apart from other social media platforms at the time. The hashtag was used by users in order to group certain thoughts together and show similar tweets based on the hashtag. It became very popular among users and a lot of people signed up for Twitter after the birth of the hashtag.
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Tumblr launches
Tumblr was an extremely popular social networking and blogging app when it was first introduced in 2007. People could post short blogs and interact with other similar posts.
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Twitter Advertising
Up until 2010, there was standard advertising, but Twitter then announced a new form of advertising on its platform called, promoted tweets. These tweets allowed companies to further expand their businesses in ways standard advertising never could. These tweets popped up on every user’s Twitter feeds and helped companies adapt to the new and ever growing digital world.
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Instagram launches
Instagram was launched on October 6th 2010. Instagram is a American photo and video sharing social networking service founded by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger and later was bought by by the company Facebook Inc, which is now known as the “Meta” platforms. Instagram allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters and organized by hashtags and geographical tagging. It is available in 32 languages.
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Youtube Analytics launches
YouTube Analytics is launched allowed creators the ability to track their performance as well as make money for their content creation.
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Snapchat launches
Snapchat is a popular picture and video sharing platform where people communicate primarily using photos. Snapchat has expanded since its launch now offering chat features, stories, etc.
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Twitter acquires Vine
Twitter buys a thing called Vine which launched in 2013. Vine allowed users to post a short, six second video. These Vine videos then could be posted to Twitter which would show up directly into user’s feeds.
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Music.ly switches users to Tik Tok
Music.ly, a popular lip syncing video platform switches its users to Tik Tok. Tik Tok allows users to create short videos and it has quickly gained popularity
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Parler shutdown
The parler app, which is a platform encouraging all types of free speech was shutdown because it was becoming a threat to public safety.
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Elon Musk taking over Twitter
Twitter made a private deal with Elon Musk in which Elon Musk has now bought the company for $44 billion in private.
Ariel