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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

Friendster (2002) Launched in 2002, Friendster was originally going to be a dating site that would help set up people with friends in common. The hashtag arrives (2007) The strict 140-character limit for tweets set Twitter apart from rivals, including Facebook and Tumblr.

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What if You Can’t Find Your Niche?

ProBlogger

When I began blogging in 2002, it was out of curiosity. Finally, if you’d like a hand brainstorming about your new niche, come over to the ProBlogger Community group on Facebook. Start your post with the hashtag #ask, so we know it’s a question.) It’s an experience many, many bloggers have faced. Including me.

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Social Pros 20 – Katie Morse, Billboard

Convince & Convert

Again, if we notice a consistent trend of people, for example after we post an article about Justin Bieber and the Billboard Music Awards and how we overcame two different hashtags being used by thousands of people, do we notice that we have a lot of Bieber fans following our business account, or do they seem to be following our consumer account?

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The Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Abusing group invites. And if they don’t accept, don’t send the group request more than once by asking them to join via email, wall post, or Facebook message. Abusing Twitter hashtags during a crisis. Grow your group by linking one-to-one. Many call this spam.

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213: Blogging and Content Marketing: 10 Things To Know

ProBlogger

Don’t forget to join the Facebook group. For me, it all started in 2002 with an email from a friend. Okay, It was 2002 and I got this email and it had four words in it and a link. Today, I’d probably use a Facebook group or something like that. Don’t forget to join the Facebook group, problogger.com/group.

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191: Tools for Creating Great Visual Content for Your Blog

ProBlogger

When I was looking back at some screenshots of my very first blog from 2002, recently, I was amazed by how boring it looked. Join our Facebook Group. I looked back the other day at my first blog and some screenshots of it from 2002 and I was amazed at how boring it looked. Adobe Spark. Adobe Draw. Adobe Color. Libre Stock.

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191: Tools for Creating Great Visual Content for Your Blog

ProBlogger

When I was looking back at some screenshots of my very first blog from 2002, recently, I was amazed by how boring it looked. Join our Facebook Group. I looked back the other day at my first blog and some screenshots of it from 2002 and I was amazed at how boring it looked. Adobe Spark. Adobe Draw. Adobe Color. Libre Stock.

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