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A Brief History of Social Media [Infographic]

Oktopost

In 2005, the platform was rolled out to university students across the country, looking much different than it does today. In the same year, Twitter launched its own advertising platform where users could promote their tweets. But to better understand where we’re going, we need to look at where we’ve been.

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Digital Diplomacy

Waxing UnLyrical

I was also an early user , and in 2005 Ogilvy London offered me a job as Interactive Creative Director. That said, there are lots of very creative people in the UK and great things going on in tech (like Tweetdeck ), creative ( Moshi Monsters ), as well as advertising and PR. So I moved here from San Francisco.

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