Social Media Trends 2013-Present

By Skyd10

  • Facebook Introduces Hashtage

    Facebook decided to introduce the hashtags so that users could find what they were looking for more quickly.

  • Twitter had 134 million dollars in Net losses

    In 2013 twitter wanted to introduces ad's so that it could begin to start making revenue

  • Vine

    Vine was introduced in the year 2013

  • LinkedIn Cover Photos

    After Facebook and Twitter make the move to utilize cover photos, so did LinkedIn

  • Instagram Allows Users to Edit Posts

    In 2014 Instagram decided to take advise from the costumers and allow the users to update or edit their posts after they had posted the picture

  • Twitter/Business Planner

    Twitter created a new app so that users could use twitter as marketing purposes

  • #BlackLivesMatter

    In 2015, the popular hashtag #BlackLivesMatter was introduced

  • Snapchat Discover

    Snapchat Discover was created in 2015 so users could more easily access news from CNN, New York Times, and TV Networks.

  • Social Shopping

    In 2016, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest allow users to click on ads fro, their feed and purchase items that are related to their accounts and interest.

  • Twitter increases the character count

    In 2017, Twitter increases the number of letters a person can write during a post. It went from 140 characters to 280 characters.

  • Virtual Reality Takes Off

    VR has investors such as GoPro, Facebook, and vTime.