Important Events in Social Media History

  • Twitter doubles character limit

    Twitter doubles character limit
    Twitter finally doubled the character count which made a lot of users happy. It went from 140 to 280 and allowed users in the app to share a lot more.
  • TikTok

    TikTok
    TikTok was released and since has became biggest social media app on the market.
  • Facebook gets in big trouble for data privacy

    Facebook gets in big trouble for data privacy
    Facebook faced a lawsuit for data privacy. It was found out that Facebook sold peoples' data to third parties.
  • 5G Cell Service Launched

    5G Cell Service Launched
    5G cell phone service was finally available for the public in 2019. This was a big deal at the time.
  • Elon Musk Buys Twitter

    Elon Musk Buys Twitter
    Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla bought Twitter for 44 million. He has completely changed the app with allowing people to post 2 hour long videos and gifting people free speech on the app and letting people say what they feel.