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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

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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. As the story goes, Twitter early adopter Chris Messina, proposed the hashtag for organizing tweets.

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Social Media U: Take a Class in Social Media - ReadWriteWeb

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One of the topics was microblogging, and Twitter was discussed. Since then, the students have formed their own vibrant community on Twitter. I am actually in the process of proposing a class like this at the local JC (I would like to teach it even). © 2003-2008 ReadWriteWeb. Lesson # 8 Learn To Podcast. Thanks again.

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