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A Brief History of Social Media [Infographic]

Oktopost

The Top 8, Birth of Facebook, and 140 Characters: 2003-2009. 2004 saw the birth of Facebook, when student Mark Zuckerberg launched the site to connect Harvard students with one another. Over 2008 and 2009, Facebook and Myspace continued to soar, earning millions of unique users across the world. 2012-2015.

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Best Social Media and Digitial Marketing Research and Statistics of 2011, Part 1

Webbiquity SMM

companies are currently using blogs for marketing purposes, up from 29% in 2009 and just 16% in 2007. ” According to research from the SMB Group, 32% of small businesses have Facebook pages though just 18% use free tools like TweetDeck and only 3% are utilizing fee-based social media tools. SERPs: The Benefits of Being No.