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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. Twitter acquired the independent app “Tweetdeck,” which allowed you to follow multiple feeds, users, and messages across Twitter from the same screen. 2012-2015.

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

Webbiquity SMM

” 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. Second, 81% of searches on Bing result in a click, versus just 66% on Google (Bing results are more relevant?). SERPs: The Benefits of Being No.