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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

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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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With 4 Days Before Blogger Social, I Bring You the 4×4 Meme

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I dabble in social media sites, particularly Twitter, Facebook, and StumbleUpon. Prior to Austin (where I had to go outside the city in order to get Kosher food for SXSW), the last time I ate Indian food was in 2003. I consume my news via Bloglines. The other site? Not so much. Answers Yahoo!

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Every Social Network is Different: Here's What You Need to Know

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Now it seems I get most of my news from Twitter. Twitter: The Upside and the Downside Three days ago, Heath Ledger passed away. As more and more people discovered the news of the actor’s passing, Twitter was inundated with news links and statements of surprise. Maki explains that there are 17 ways you can use Twitter.

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Social Media U: Take a Class in Social Media - ReadWriteWeb

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Whether youre socializing on Facebook , updating Twitter , or just adding a new bookmark to Ma.gnolia , social media has become an integral part of our daily lives. Lesson #7 Learn to Twitter. Here they learn about social media tools like RSS, Delicious, podcasting, videocasting, blogs, wikis, and yes, even Twitter. 25 Comments.

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Fifteen Years of Online Social Interactions

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Twitter is the new chat room, but IRC still remains a popular choice behind services like Ustream and Y! I hope to join you guys on twitter soon, I see the trail you are blazing on StumbleUpon Reply SilentJay74 May 19, 2008 at 8:22 am I got one for you. For me, it was all about keywords and about navigating to content on AOL. (It

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Social Class Distinction Between MySpace and Facebook » Techipedia.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I’m a borderline user of both social networks; I graduated from college in 2003, but joined Facebook when it established in 2004. Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! I joined MySpace in 2006 (!)

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