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A Brief History of Social Media [Infographic]

Oktopost

2004 saw the birth of Facebook, when student Mark Zuckerberg launched the site to connect Harvard students with one another. In the same year, Twitter launched its own advertising platform where users could promote their tweets. The very same year, surprisingly, LinkedIn launched as a professional networking and job posting site.

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

Webbiquity SMM

16 social media statistics that might surprise you by Communications Conversations Arik Hanson lists social media stats from various sources showing that 75% of brand ‘Likes’ on Facebook come from advertisements. And 73% of U.S. companies now use social media for marketing. Fridays at 4 p.m. eastern time (U.S.)