Sprout Social

OCTOBER 9, 2018

million in 2003. So in early 2003, we’ve got over 15 million people playing fantasy sports online. They’ve used hashtags. We’ve written a lot on how powerful the right hashtags can be for your brand. Check out Ritetag to find popular hashtags in your niche. Because people could place bets online.

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Hootsuite

APRIL 6, 2023

Unfortunately, the site’s spike in popularity in 2003 caught the company by surprise. Myspace: “A place for friends” (2003) Friendster rival Myspace (originally styled as MySpace) quickly became the go-to site for millions of hip teens. As the story goes, Twitter early adopter Chris Messina, proposed the hashtag for organizing tweets.

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Oktopost

AUGUST 15, 2022

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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Audiense

AUGUST 25, 2016

His vision of Solar Impulse came to life, and in 2003 the project came to life here in Switzerland. It then took us 13 years until we were able to successfully do the first round-the-world flight without fuel, starting in Abu Dhabi on March 9th 2015 and finishing there on July 26st. — SOLAR IMPULSE (@solarimpulse) June 1, 2015.

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Audiense

AUGUST 25, 2016

His vision of Solar Impulse came to life, and in 2003 the project came to life here in Switzerland. It then took us 13 years until we were able to successfully do the first round-the-world flight without fuel, starting in Abu Dhabi on March 9th 2015 and finishing there on July 26st. — SOLAR IMPULSE (@solarimpulse) June 1, 2015.

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Buffer Social

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

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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Webbiquity SMM

APRIL 27, 2021

LinkedIn was launched in 2003 and had reached one million users by August 2004. Interest in the medium gradually declined over the next few years, then began picking up again in 2015. Search interest in influencer marketing lagged social media by seven years, starting to rapidly rise in late 2015 / early 2016.

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