2005 API Microblogging Platform 
Hootsuite
APRIL 6, 2023
It depends, but early social media platforms started to pop up in the late 90s to early 2000s, with the technology budding as early as the 70s. 2005 marked the apex of Myspace. Registering its one-millionth user that same year, the site became just “ Facebook ” in 2005. So, how old is social media?
Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg
APRIL 28, 2010
I, like other “students&# at the time, always thought Facebook wouldn’t “sell out&# and become an open platform. When you’re a platform for businesses, having a mutually beneficial relationship could even be a good idea. The problem is that Twitter didn’t try to market itself as a private platform.
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