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The Silent Rise of LinkedIn to 500M Members: What Marketers Need to Know for 2018 [SSM069]

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If you were to ask me to describe LinkedIn in 2015, I might have said something along the lines of, “a great professional network” or “the perfect place to find a job.” A quick look at LinkedIn’s journey to 500 million members: 2003 (0 members): Launch. 2015 (330M members): $1.5B Written content.

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A Brief History of Social Media [Infographic]

Oktopost

The Top 8, Birth of Facebook, and 140 Characters: 2003-2009. In 2003, Myspace launched and took off across the web. In the same year, Chris Messina invented the hashtag – the first method of categorizing social media posts, which then became a central feature of Twitter’s platform. A Not-So-Distant Past: 2010-2015.

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How Social Media and Influencers Have Radically Changed B2B Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

Social media and influencer marketing have each significantly impacted the work of B2B marketers. But the two combined have changed B2B marketing in profound, evolving, and still not completely understood ways. LinkedIn was launched in 2003 and had reached one million users by August 2004. ” Prologue: The Reign of Print.

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