Dave Fleet

APRIL 4, 2018

Its roots back in the mid-2000s – and the early business use-cases – centred around building communities and solving problems. I moved to Canada in 2003 and soon after landed a temp gig with the Government of Ontario. When the big global tech client left us in 2013, I had a number of potential paths in front of me.

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 26, 2014

The two companies were created six months apart; Myspace was founded in August 2003 and by July 2005 was bought by News Corp for 580 million dollars. In late 2013, Myspace users numbered approximately 36 million–less than half the number of unique users Myspace had at its peak in Late 2008. The company now has over 1.4 billion users.

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B2B MySpace Startup Social Networking 190

Hootsuite

APRIL 6, 2023

Unfortunately, the site’s spike in popularity in 2003 caught the company by surprise. Myspace: “A place for friends” (2003) Friendster rival Myspace (originally styled as MySpace) quickly became the go-to site for millions of hip teens. You could create a profile, include “status updates,” and reveal your mood.

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Dave Fleet

APRIL 4, 2018

Its roots back in the mid-2000s – and the early business use-cases – centred around building communities and solving problems. I moved to Canada in 2003 and soon after landed a temp gig with the Government of Ontario. When the big global tech client left us in 2013, I had a number of potential paths in front of me.

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Team Social Media Training Foursquare 34

Ignite Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

If we take a look at what’s happened over those 15 years, to frame this in the context of the larger timeline going on in the world, MySpace launched in 2003. In fact, they’ve been mostly irrelevant since 2013, but that doesn’t stop clients from coming to us and still saying, “I need to increase my followers.”

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Influencer Social Media Hubspot Travel 85

Hootsuite

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

We put the question to our LinkedIn community and based on the responses one thing is clear: There’s a lot of people out there who don’t know what social media marketers do. The job title is often used interchangeably with digital marketing manager , community manager , content creator , and others. How do I grow my follower count?

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Questions Social Media HootSuite Marketing 141

Audiense

AUGUST 25, 2016

His vision of Solar Impulse came to life, and in 2003 the project came to life here in Switzerland. The project dates back to 2003, before social media really kicked off, how much advanced planning was done in the social media strategy? We also had no way of organising or analysing our existing follower base and wider community.

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