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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

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. The hashtag arrives (2007) The strict 140-character limit for tweets set Twitter apart from rivals, including Facebook and Tumblr.

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Content Marketing on Chinese Micro Blogs

Mindjumpers

Meanwhile teaching, she has held a position as marketing planner at Chendu Media Group. She has always been interested in social media marketing, in particularly in its development in China. But they often don’t realize that they are part of one of the most booming social media markets. Content marketing on micro blogs.

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Social Networking Stats: #RLTM Scoreboard, Marketers Buy Facebook Ads for Awareness, Not Fans

The Realtime Report

Tumblr: 64 million blogs. via Tumblr. Marketers Buy Facebook Ads For Awareness, Not Fans. Marketers are buying Facebook ads primarily to build awareness and sentiment, according to a new survey by Ad Age and Citigroup. Renren: over 170 million users. via iResearch iUser Tracker. LinkedIn: 160 million members.

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79 Remarkable Social Media Marketing Facts and Statistics for 2012

Webbiquity SMM

Social media and inbound marketing techniques have been a boon for marketers. Not only do leads generated through social and content marketing cost half as much as traditional outbound-generated leads (see below), they also close at higher rate (again, see below). Marketing Charts ). Marketing Charts ).

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The State of Social Media In The UK

Mindjumpers

But before starting this, it is always good to look back at how 2011 has been for our different sites and then go on to predict how it would be in future. Tumblr is another platform to watch, with major growth during 2011 and Nielson’s third quarter report putting it at #2 in the UK by page views.

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Social Networking Stats: LinkedIn Tops 187 Million Active Users, #RLTM Scoreboard

The Realtime Report

Tumblr: 79 million blogs. via Tumblr. the company’s marketing business which saw revenue growth of 60% year over year, and represented 25% of total revenue in Q3. LinkedIn’s premium subscriptions product jumped 74% from Q3 in 2011, and represented 20% of total revenue in Q3 2012. via iResearch iUser Tracker.

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The Billion Dollar Branding Play

Twist Image

What is Yahoo going to do with Tumblr? What is Tumblr going to become with Yahoo? After it was announced that Yahoo would be acquiring Tumblr for a little over a billion dollars, the online channels (and traditional media outlets) went crazy in an " Instagram just got bought by Facebook for a billion dollars" kind of way.

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