social media
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Updated: 13 Oct 2017
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The first social media site was staredOver 100 million people has the internetWikipedia, a free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, launches.Friendster, considered the granddaddy of social networks, launches.Technorati, a search engine for blogs, goes live.LinkedIn begins. LinkedIn strives to be known as a business-related social networking site used by professionals from its inceptionWordpress, a publishing platform that hosts blogs, is releasedMyspace is launchedGoogle begins GmailFlickr, an image and video hosting website, goes liveFacebook, a social networking service which began at Harvard, expands to other universitiesYelp, a social networking site where users can review local businesses, beginsDIGG, a social news website, goes liveFacebook reaches one million membersYoutube, a video-sharing website, goes live.Mashable, a news website and blog, goes liveFacebook becomes available to high schools in the United States.Facebook becomes available in the UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.Myspace becomes the most popular social networking site in the United States.Twitter, a website for mini-blogging and social networking, begins.Facebook launches its news feed feature to a mixed reaction. Users are not used to their every move being tracked in one general stream.Google acquires Youtube.WikiLeaks, which publishes submissions from anonymous sources, begins.Tinder, a widely popular dating-oriented social networking service, launches.Vine, a widely popular video sharing and social media service, launches .
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