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Instagram launches on their app Instagram Stories
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I added this to this timeline because of the great significance that it had on the world back in 2016. Showing that Wikileaks had classified information proving that the Russians were interfering with a Presidential election.
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In March of 2017, Snapchat began trading publicly on the New York Stock Exchange
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In September of 2017, Facebook shut down about 500 fake "troll" accounts created by Russians.
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Before 2017 the number of characters used to send a tweet was only 140. In late 2017 the character number doubled to 280, giving Twitter users the ability to say more.
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A data mining scandal involving Cambridge Analytica and the sale of data from some 50 million users. Congressional grilling for founder Mark Zuckerberg and losing $119 billion in value in a single day all making it a terrible year for the world’s leading social network.
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Apple became the first American publicly-traded company to reach $1 trillion in value
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The rise of Fortnite made everyone wonder if this was the new way teen and tweens were going to start to interact socially.
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Thousands of Google employees walked out of their jobs to protest the company’s behavior around covering up sexual harassment. A New York Times article claimed that the company paid longtime executive Andy Rubin $90 million in severance after an employee accused him of sexual misconduct.
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May 8, Microsoft announced that its new AI is intended to help improve writing beyond grammar fixes. The new AI in Microsoft Word will help make language gender-inclusive and suggest edits on clunky sentences.
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The first folding smartphones were introduced in February 2019, with Samsung introducing the Galaxy Fold and the Huawei Mate X from Huawei. Later that year, Huawei is banned from doing business with U.S. companies due to China's political tension. This lead to Google no longer supporting Android on Huawei smartphones.
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Although TikTok was an app that was making money long before COVID and the pandemic hit. TikTok really made its mark in 2020 while we all sat home in quarantine trying to learn TikTok dances.
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With quarantine, the rise of virtual meetings, conferences, and even school started so that we could still stay connected through technology.