11. SOCIAL MEDIA MILESTONES
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1997 - The Web boasted one million sites. Blogging begins. AOL Instant
Messenger lets users chat.
1998 - Google opens as a major Internet search engine and index.
1999 - Friends Reunited, remembered as the first online social network to achieve prominence, was founded in Great Britain to relocate past school pals.
2000 – The millennium begins & no computers crash
1999 - Friends Reunited, remembered as the first online social network to
achieve prominence, was founded in Great Britain to relocate past school
pals.
2000 – The millennium begins & no computers crash
2001 - Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia and world's largest
wiki, was started.
2003 - MySpace. Another social networking website & the
virtual world of Second Life were born & LinkedIn was
started as a business-oriented social networking site for
professionals.
2001 - Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia and world's largest wiki, was started.
2003 - MySpace. Another social networking website & the virtual world of Second Life were born & LinkedIn was started as a business-oriented social networking site
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2004 – Facebook was started for students at Harvard College, Podcasting
began on the Internet. Flickr image hosting website opened & Digg was
founded as a social news website where people shared stories found
across the Internet.
2006 - Twitter was launched as a social networking and microblogging
site, enabling members to send and receive 140-character messages called
tweets.
2007 - Apple released the iPhone multimedia and Internet Smartphone.
2008 - Facebook surpassed MySpace in the total number of monthly
unique visitors.
2009 - Unfriend was the New Oxford American Dictionary word of the
year & it was estimated that a quarter of Earth's population used the
Internet.
2010 - Apple released the iPad tablet computer with advanced multimedia
and Internet capabilities.
2011 - Social media commerce was on the rise along with mobile social
media via Smartphones and tablet computers.
14. 2012 -SOCIAL MEDIA MILESTONES
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Social media has come of age with more people using Smartphones and tables to access
social networks. New sites emerge and catch on. The top ten social networks are
Facebook, Blogger, Twitter, Wordpress, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Google+, Tumblr, MySpace
and Wikia.
More than half of adults 25-34 use social media at the office. Almost a third of young
adults 18-24 use social media in the bathroom.
Advertisers look to social "likes" to enhance brand visibility.
Facebook reached a billion users in 2012.
YouTube has more than 800 million users each month with more than 1 trillion views per
year or around 140 views for every person on Earth.
