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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

Hot or Not is rumored to have influenced the creators of Facebook and YouTube and nurtured millions of insecurities. Unfortunately, the site’s spike in popularity in 2003 caught the company by surprise. YouTube makes partners, the OG influencers (2007) Through YouTube’s elephantine beginnings , the buzz grew.

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15 Lessons That Took Me 15 Years to Learn by Jim Tobin

Ignite Social Media

If we take a look at what’s happened over those 15 years, to frame this in the context of the larger timeline going on in the world, MySpace launched in 2003. When they launched, they had a YouTube commercial that did very, very well. Facebook opened to the public moving away from colleges in September of 2006.

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Common Social Media Questions and Answers All Marketers Should Know

Hootsuite

Here’s a chronological timeline of the founding dates of Facebook and other platforms: LinkedIn: May 5, 2003. YouTube: February 14, 2005. YouTube is a subsidiary of Google, which is owned by Alphabet. Google acquired YouTube in 2006 for $1.65 billion users. Source: Hootsuite. When was Facebook founded? WhatsApp: 2009.

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How Social Media and Influencers Have Radically Changed B2B Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

LinkedIn was launched in 2003 and had reached one million users by August 2004. YouTube got started in 2005. ” Virtway Events (2014) created 3D, 360-degree virtual reality (VR) worlds for online events. You no longer needed to own a printing press. Social Media Marketing Becomes a Thing.

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