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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

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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. Soon after, the term micro-blogging became widely used to describe both Twitter and Tumblr, noting the exchange of ‘small’ amounts of content. So, how old is social media?

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What You Can Learn About Social Media Marketing from TLC

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Around that time, though, I noticed that TLC was promoting Foursquare as Facebook within their TV programs. On multiple occasions, I noticed an overlay during their episodes that encouraged users to follow them on Foursquare with a link to a Facebook.com address. The FourSquare/Facebook issue is at best a confusing promotion.

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Quantum Entanglements: The Social Media Scandals

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

and thank you, Tamar, for giving me a platform to reach more people in the social media sphere than i could have on my own. Reply Mark January 16, 2010 at 4:47 pm Apparently this is still an ongoing scam, as I was just recently friended by LillyAnn on Foursquare. it isn’t easy, but it is worth the effort. I do not believe this!

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Dear Facebook Friends, You're Doing it Wrong

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Besides, what if there was no online platform to network? I continue on to tell them that in addition to these reasons, by being on the personal profile platform, they aren’t receiving the SEO benefits afforded to business pages; ie page statuses being indexed by Google while profile statuses are not.

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