How we came to tweet and all the rest in just a few short years
By APWednesday, December 9, 2009
A social networking timeline
Milestones in social networking over the past decade:
2002 — Friendster launches and becomes a social networking force until MySpace and the more buttoned-up LinkedIn hit the scene in 2003 and slowly gain more traction.
2004 — Facebook begins to become a staple of communication for college students. The service opens up to high schoolers in 2005, corporate networks in 2006 and eventually becomes a worldwide phenomenon.
2005 — YouTube, an online video hosting site, launches.
2006 — Twitter, a “microblogging site” that allows 140-character posts, begins and, by decade’s end, becomes one of the fastest-growing social networking sites.
(Source: D.M. Boyd & N.B. Ellison, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication)
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