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SixDegrees.com, one of the earliest social media platforms, allowed users to create lists of contacts, set up profile pages, and send messages inside networks. -
AmIHotorNot.com - Users were encouraged to upload images of themselves to the website so that others may assess their attractiveness. Millions of insecurities are said to have been cultivated by Hot or Not, which is said to have affected the designers of Facebook and YouTube. -
I vaguely remember people talking about this website growing up. It had configurable public profiles that were accessible to anybody and frequently included music, videos, and poorly-taken, half-naked selfies. -
I personally had no idea that LinkedIn had been around for so long. LinkedIn among many others like Photobucket, Flickr, Nexopia, YouTube, and Reddit were all very popular at this time. -
The very first tweet was sent by co-founder @Jack Dorsey and stated, "Just setting up my twttr." This tweet really set the tone for all subsequent tweets. Twttr was initially intended by Dorsey to be a text-based platform for sharing updates with friends. -
When 17-year-old David Karp founded Tumblr from his bedroom in 2007, the social network dubbed "Twitter meets YouTube and WordPress" came a-tumblin' along. This started up a lot of blogging during this time. -
People started using hashtags due to the 140-character limit for tweets on Twitter. This symbol ultimately helped promote and create awareness for certain political or any citizen to use. Later, Twitter capitalized on the hashtag and made the ability to hyperlink them in 2009. -
The Chinese social media platform Sina Weibo, often known as Weibo, was introduced in 2009, the same year that Facebook and Twitter were outlawed in China. -
Grindr was the first networking dating app oriented toward homosexual and bisexual men, entering the market in 2009 and assisting them in meeting other guys nearby. It transformed the hookup scene and paved the door for numerous additional geolocation dating services (like Tinder), which are available to both straight and LGBT people. -
Because of the platform's popularity and the fact that Instagram is now the most downloaded app worldwide, Instagram postings have significantly increased in sophistication. -
Pinterest is a great app to get any inspiration you need. For example, recipes, fashion, home decor, nail art, poems, inspirational quotes, etc. It launched in 2011, and became a hobby of many people. -
Soon-to-be rival "Picaboo" debuted almost exactly a year after Instagram, rapidly changing its name to Snapchat in response to a lawsuit by a business with a similar name. The app's early popularity was a result of its ability to submit items that would disappear after 24 hours, which tapped into the transient nature of life's experiences. -
The wildly famous live-streaming platform for video games, Twitch, began as a branch of Justin.tv, a general interest streaming service that debuted in 2007. It seems like a LOT of people enjoy watching live-streamed video games (around 45 million unique viewers by 2013). When Amazon noticed the surge, it promptly acquired Twitch. -
Facebook claimed its user base had hit one billion members eight years after the company's founding. In addition, this was the year that Facebook paid $1 billion to acquire Instagram, a significant development in the history of social media. -
Early social media influencers established fan bases on platforms like YouTube and Twitch, but Patreon raised the bar for monetizing their fans. Two YouTubers created it in order to make money off of their YouTube videos. That is how/why YouTube had the subscribers option and exclusive content on the platform. -
Before Vine was able to start in 2013, Twitter acquired it for $30 billion. The idea behind Vine was quite straightforward—videos shared there could only last up to 6 seconds—but it immediately gave rise to a unique sense of humor that is still popular today. -
Instagram debuted "Stories," a feature that allows users to submit photo and video sequences that vanish after 24 hours (although they can now be saved and preserved), taking a page from Snapchat. The software has become even more addictive thanks to filters, stickers, polls, hashtags, and highlights to improve Stories. -
ByteDance's Douyin's app was made available outside of China as TikTok. The popularity of TikTok spreads throughout Asian nations. Around the same time as Lil Nas X launched Old Town Road on the site, which quickly went viral, it gained significant popularity in North America. -
In 2018, Instagram debuted IGTV, a new app devoted to long-form video, and expanded its one-minute video restriction to one hour. In 2019, they also launched Reels, an Instagram video feature. -
BeReal, users may share one photo every day to show their followers what they are up to in real time. Users are urged to be genuine by the BeReal app, which focuses on authenticity. Users can avoid spending hours on the app throughout the day because the software only permits each user to publish once per day, setting it apart from other social media platforms that are now at the top of the market.