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The site amassed around one million users before it was bought out for $125 million
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One of the earliest causes of today's insecurities on social media. Made a return in 2014 as a dating app/game.
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Dating site focused on helping people make more friends. Initial success was too much for the company's servers to handle, eventually leading to its demise.
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One of the first huge social media platforms, stole the hearts of Friendster users.
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Mark Zuckerberg's attempt at a Hot or Not type of website while at Harvard.
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Early edition of Facebook, gained 1 million users in its first year.
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Mark Zuckerberg made the decision to drop the "the" after "facebook.com" was purchased for $200,000.
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Soon-to-be internet staple "YouTube" offically drops after months of public beta testing.
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Text message based apllication to share small updates amongst friends.
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Once referred to as “Myspace for adults.” First to offer users paid premium packages
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One of Twitter’s early adopters, Chris Messina, proposed the "hashtag" for organizing tweets.
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Photo/caption sharing platform, quickly became extremely popular amongst young people.
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Social bookmarking app, once referred to as “digital crack for women.”
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Photo sharing app that got its early appeal from the fact that posts are only public for 24 hours at a time. Unlike most other social media platforms, Snapchat is most frequently used as a consistent messaging app.
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Facebook live has become one of the most used and most stable livestreaming platforms for creators.
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Instagram was the first to steal the Story idea from Snapchat, but they were soon followed by Facebook, YouTube, and even Netflix.
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140 to 280
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Instagram now chose to take a page from YouTube and introduce longform video.