article thumbnail

The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

Tumblr and the age of the microblog (2007) In 2007, the social network described as “Twitter meets YouTube and WordPress” came a-tumblin’ along when 17-year-old David Karp launched Tumblr from his bedroom. In 2021, Instagram merged IGTV and Feed videos into a single format: Instagram Video.

article thumbnail

What Is an Everything App? Complete Guide to Super Apps

Hootsuite

Source: KakaoTalk The Line Messaging app launched in Japan in 2011 after a devastating earthquake and tsunami. Social media and microblogging What would an everything app be without a social media component? After a user logs into a super app, the app’s dashboard will present several options.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

UberMedia, Mixx, And Twitter | Small Business Mavericks

Small Business Mavericks

And any competing microblogging service is going to have an uphill battle against Twitter. Tags: Mixx , Twitter , Ubermedia This entry was posted on Monday, April 18th, 2011 at 10:27 am and is filed under Social Media. There are some big variables there. The question is, does UberMedia have the digital cojones ?

article thumbnail

The Ultimate List of Social Media Definitions You Need to Know

Hootsuite

A feed is an updated list of all the new content posted by the accounts a user follows on social media. Rather than being purely chronological, most social media feeds are controlled by an algorithm. See News feed. Microblogging. On other social networks, this is simply called the feed. Monitoring. Newsjacking.

List 145
article thumbnail

Social Media the One Bright Spot for PR Hiring

Proactive Report

companies say they plan to award base salary pay increases in 2011. You need to be able to use blogs, microblogs, social networks, RSS feeds and other tools to connect internal stakeholders as well as reach out to, and build a community with, your customers and other external audiences. 98% of U.S. How is PR faring?

article thumbnail

Best Social Media and Digital Marketing Research and Statistics of 2011, Part 2

Webbiquity SMM

And 32 percent of them contribute or read micro-feeds using Twitter or a similar application.” of the social media traffic referrals in the US from August to September” in 2011) but also that its link have a much longer half-life than those on Facebook or Twitter. ” Twitter Stats. StumbleUpon Stats.