Were you aware the genesis of social media dated back to 1994? How many of you remember Friendster or AOL instant messaging? Social media has come a long way. Once thought as a great way for teens to connect and talk about excruciating minutia, social media has become a force of revenue that has been adopted by most successful businesses. (Text version below infographic.)
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1994
BHI (Beverly Hills Internet) starts Geocities
1,500 Web servers online
1997
The Genesis of Blogging
AOL Instant Messenger
SixDegrees.com – allows users personalized profiles and friend list
1998
Google Begins
1999
Friends Reunited – First Social Network to Gain Prominence
2000
Dotcom bubble bursts
2001
Wikipedia begins
2002
Friendster – 3 million users
AOL- 34 million users
2003
Myspace
Flickr
Dawn of Podcasting
Digg – Social News
2005
Bebo – Blog Early Blog Often
Facebook – College Students only
YouTube
2006
Twitter
Google Indexes 25 billion+ websites
Facebook opens to anyone over 13
2007
iPhone released
Facebook allows ad targeting
2008
Facebook passes MySpace in monthly unique visits
2009
Facebook – 200 million users
Google – one trillion URLs
2010
Facebook – 400 million users
Google Launches Buzz
iPad
Internet surpassed print as news source
1.97 billion internet users
2011
Facebook – 550 million users
Twitter – 65 million daily tweets
YouTube – 2 billion daily video views
Linkedin – 90 million users
Social media commerce on the rise
2012
Top Ten Social Networks – Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, WordPress, Linkedin, Pinterest, Google+, Tumblr, Myspace, and Wikia
U.S. Internet Use: computers – 213 million users, smartphone – 52 million users tablet – 55 million users
Facebook – 1 billion users
YouTube – 800 million users
Advertisers use “likes” as business metric
2013
YouTube – one billion monthly users, 4 billion daily views
Twitter – 500 million users
Tumblr – 170 million users 100 million users<
Flickr – 87 million users
Pinterest – 48.7 million users
Wordpress – Host 74 million blogs
Google – 343 million users
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