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  • Facebook Live launches

    Facebook Live was an innovative way of letting content creators interact with their audiences in real-time.

  • Instagram reaches 500 million monthly users

  • Instagram Stories launches

    Instagram admits that the idea came from Snapchat so as to steal some of their user base.

  • Tik Tok launches in China

  • Vine shutdown

    Vine, the most popular video sharing app of its time, was discontinued by Twitter since it was out-competed by its competitors like Snapchat.

  • Facebook Fundraising launches

    Allowing users to fundraise within their online social media community is a great step forward for charity.

  • Snapchat files IPO and begins trading on NY:SE

  • Facebook reaches 2 billion monthly users

  • Tik Tok launches around the globe

  • Tik Tok buys Musical.ly

  • Facebook launches Trust Indicators

    This is the first real policy on social media to combat fake news

  • Parler launches

    Parler was one of the first social media sites to gain success with its policy of upholding all free speech on its platform

  • Tik Tok has 1 billion app downloads worldwide

  • Sale of VR headsets grew by 30%

  • 62% of the world uses the internet

  • U.S. Government announces possible ban on Tik Tok from U.S.

    This is an important event for all social media platforms since it could form a foundation on how the U.S. government deals with and censors other social media platforms in the future.

  • Microsoft launches Xbox X

  • Parler is pulled from the Google Play Store and Apple's App Store