The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments
Hootsuite
APRIL 6, 2023
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. As the story goes, Twitter early adopter Chris Messina, proposed the hashtag for organizing tweets.
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