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Five Social Channels You May Not Know About

Ignite Social Media

An article by BBC.com states that 154 million people use it daily with 91% of whom access it via mobile. Like Facebook, when it launched in 2006 it was limited to those attending university and invitation only. Instead of tweeting you toot and it has a look and feel that is very similar to Tweetdeck.

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Why Alps Bethneck is 5 Years Old

Ari Herzog

One night in 2006, over Tiger beer and carrot cake at a hawker center , my designer friend Little Ong told me about Multiply. Another friend, Dinnertube , started posting videos on Youtube in 2006. But Tweetdeck ! My G+ invitation came from Singaporean/New Zealand designer Shazanah Hassan , another real world friend.

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A Brief History of Social Media [Infographic]

Oktopost

In 2006, Twitter joined the social media sphere with an interesting niche: you could only publish micro posts of 140 characters or fewer. Twitter acquired the independent app “Tweetdeck,” which allowed you to follow multiple feeds, users, and messages across Twitter from the same screen.