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The first well-known social network that let people make profiles and connect with each other. -
An early social media site that became very famous very quickly before going down because it couldn't handle growth. -
A site for professionals to connect and talk about jobs and careers. -
Facebook is started by Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard. -
YouTube changes the way people share videos online. -
Tweets with 140 characters are used for messaging. -
Facebook was first made for college students, but now anyone 13 or older with an email address can join. This is the start of Facebook's world growth. -
Chris Messina suggests using # to group tweets together. -
Hashtags are now officially used on Twitter. -
A social app for sharing photos that has filters. -
Introduces messages that disappear. -
To fight with Facebook, Google makes its own social network called Google+. It didn't catch on, and it shut down in 2019. -
$1B acquisition -
People really like Twitter's 6-second video app Vine, and it helps a lot of famous people get their start. It was shut down in 2017. -
Huge growth in world messages. -
ByteDance released it in China first, and then it came out everywhere else. -
Boosts worries about privacy in how Facebook uses data. -
Boosts worries about privacy in how Facebook uses data. -
During the pandemic, the audio-only social platform Clubhouse grows in popularity, letting users have drop-in talk chats with entrepreneurs and celebs. -
Meta starts a website that works like Twitter.