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Mark Zuckerburg registers the domain name "thefacebook.com", which would later become Facebook.
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The First ever tweet, "just setting up my twttr" is tweeted by Twitter creater Jack Dorsey
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Twitter is released for public use
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Facebook adds the News Feed feature to the user's homepage. The News feed allows for easy access to the latest posts and updates without too much hassle.
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Facebook is now open to the general public, and is no longer limited to only high school and college students. Anyone that has a valid email and is at least 13 years old can make an account.
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Facebook Platform is launched, allowing for Third Party developers to create their own services and apps with access to data from Facebook's database.
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The first suggestion of the use of hashtags on Twitter is made by Chris Messina
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The introduction of Facebook Chat allowed for users to have fast, private, one-on-one conversations between Facebook Friends.
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NASA uses Twitter to tell the world that water was found on Mars
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The Famous "like" button is introduce to the site, which allowed for users to have a quick and easy method of sharing content with their peers
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A record 456 tweets per second is made when news of Michael Jackson's death reaches Twitter
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Twitter gains 105 Million users
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The Social Network is released, making $22,445,653 in its opening weekend and would later win 3 oscars.
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Instagram is launched on the Apple App store.
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Instagram gains one hundred million users in total
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The Mobile App for Facebook was launched, providing smartphone users with the ability to view their Facebook profiles on the go.
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Charlie Sheen becomes the fastest person to gain 1 million followers when he joins Twitter.
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Skype capabilites are added to Facebook, allowing users to chat through voice and chat sessions.
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Instagram’s 150 millionth photo is uploaded to its database.
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With the introduction of Timeline, Facebook users were given the access to essentially a complete summary of the user's Facebook life.
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Instagram is named Apple’s iPhone app of the year.
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Twitter amasses 200 million active users
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Instagram v2.1 is released, adding four new filters, live filters, an updated look, and various other improvements.
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Instagram is released for download on Android phones.
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Instagram is bought by Facebook for roughly $1 Billion dollars.
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Facebook opens up stock shares to the public investors starting at $38 a share.
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Twitter's logo is changed from "Twitter" to the iconic Blue Bird in flight
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Photo Pages are added to Instagram, allowing for users to both place likes and comment on submitted photos.
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At 12:45 P.M. Pacific time, Facebook reached 1 billion active users, marking a massive milestone for the site.
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Instagram add web profiles, which allow for users to view their photos on a laptop of desktop.
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Barack Obama's "Four More Years" tweet becomes the most retweeted post of all time
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The Popee makes a Twitter account and makes his first tweet
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Instagram v3.4.1 is released, adding support for 25 languages, making it much more accessible on a national level.
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Facebook Graph Search is released on Facebook, allowing for users to search for queries through the use of Facebook's database.
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Instagram adds the ability to view your feed on the web rather than just having that function be only limited to your smartphone.
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Instagram gains 100 million active users.
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The Photos of You feature is added, allowing users to tag people within their photos.
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Video on Instagram is added, allowing for users to take up to fifteen seconds footage and upload it to their profile.
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Instagram adds the ability to embed photos and videos on the web.
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Twitter Files for IPO
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Twitter releases Twitter Alerts, which allow for users to send emergency alerts through text to followers
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Instagram introduces sponsered photos and videos, allowing for posts on the app to have ads be shown.
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Twitter is updated to allow for both photos and visuals to be included in tweets
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Twitter opens up public stocks under the ticker TWTR
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Ellen DeGeneres's tweet during The Oscars beats the record for the most retweeted tweet.
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Facebook buys the Oculus VR, the company best known for creating virtual reality gaming headsets, for $2 billion dollars.
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Instagram v3.0 is released, adding UI changes, as well as the Photo Maps Feature, which uses a submitted photo’s location data to create a personalized map of a user’s photos, allowing them to see who else took a photo in a particular location.
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Instagram Direct is added, which allows for users to choose who gets to see a certain photo or video.
