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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

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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. Foursquare’s geolocation API was used for geofilters and location tagging in apps like Snapchat, Twitter, and Instagram.

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21 Top Social Media Sites to Consider for Your Brand

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For small businesses, it has built the WhatsApp Business app while for medium and large businesses, there’s the WhatsApp Business API. Messenger used to be a messaging feature within Facebook, and since 2011, Facebook has made Messenger into a standalone app by itself and greatly expanded on its features. Messenger – 1.3

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The Ultimate List of Social Media Definitions You Need to Know

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Application programming interface (API). An application programming interface (API) is a communication system that allows two applications or platforms to “talk” to each other. Social network APIs allow these platforms to integrate with other software providers and apps. Microblogging. See Vanity metric.

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