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Mark Zuckerberg launches FaceMash from his Harvard dorm room. Zuckerberg hacked Harvard dorms' private networks to download pictures of all students. He then created a website for people to compare the pictures side-by-side.
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Thefacebook is launched by Zuckerberg and four other friends. It was only available for Harvard students to use.
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The Crimson pusblishes an article announcing thefacebook's expansion to Standford, Columbia and Yale Universities.
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Facebook reaches 1 million users.
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Zuckerberg pays $200,000 for the domain name Facebook.
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Facebook allowed for high school students to register using their school email address.
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Twitter is created by Jack Dorsey and launched by Evan Williams, Noah Glass and Biz Stone.
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Facebook creates the newsfeed and minifeed to show friend activity.
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Facebook opens registration to everyone.
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In December, Facebook reaches 12 million users.
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Microsoft pays $2.4M for less than 2% share of Facebook
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Facebook reached 58 Million users
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Facebook adds the "like" button
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Facebook reaches 360 Million users.
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Twitter introduces Promoted Tweets, their first form of advertising within the social platform.
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The first promoted trend is for Disney Pixar's Toy Story 3.
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Facebook Launced Places. Privacy concerns continue to grow.
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Facebook launches a new profile format
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Facebook launches Timeline, aimed at showing major moments in peoples lives taht can be shared.
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Facebook becomes a publically traded company with $38 per share, creating an estimated value of $104 billion.
