Significant events in the internet/social media since 2016!

By karakillian

  • 2016

    2016
    Vine Announced that twitter was discontinuing the mobile app Vine.

  • 2017

    2017
    Tik Tok Launches

  • Over half world population uses the internet

    Over half world population uses the internet
    In the short time span from December 2016 to June 2017 the percentage of people who use the internet in the world broke 50%

  • Parler Launches

    Parler Launches
    Parler launches as competition to twitter and vows not to censor. The platform is championed by many right wing and other extremist groups.

  • Musical.ly shuts down and all users are migrated to Tik Tok

    Musical.ly shuts down and all users are migrated to Tik Tok
    Musical.ly shuts down and migrats all of its users to Tik Tok, which had become one of the fastest growing apps

  • Trump is banned from Twitter

    Trump is banned from Twitter
    Just 2 days after the January 6th insurrections that were incited by Trump through his social media platforms and rallies, Trump the standing president of the United States at the time, is banned from twitter.

  • Parler is allowed back onto the Apple Store

    Parler is allowed back onto the Apple Store
    Parler is allowed to return to the apple app store after being banned during the January 6 insurrection attacks. They are now censoring Hate Speech from the app, the very thing they said they would never do, and the basis of their creation. However, stupidity abounds.