Top 10 Social Moments

in History

Here are the 10 defining moments in the history of social media:

Ted Leonsis uses AOL Instant Message to send his wife this message:“ Don’t be scared ... it is me. Love you and miss you.” She replied: “Wow ... this is so cool!”1

Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter, sends the first tweet: “just setting up my twttr.” It has been retweeted 19,000 times.8

Even the Pope is on Twitter! Pope Benedict uses the handle @Pontifex to post: “Dear friends, I am pleased to get in touch with you through Twitter. Thank you for your generous response. I bless all of you from my heart.”12

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Canadian computer programmer Jonathan Abrams launches social gaming site Friendster, attract-ing 3 million people to join in just three months.32005

Jawed Karim posts the first YouTube video from the San Diego Zoo. It has been watched 13 million

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1999Everyone has something to say

and the birth of Blogger.com gave everyone a forum where to say

it for all the world to read.2

LinkedIn launches after being created in the living room of one of its co-founders, Reid Hoffman, the year before while Tom Anderson, and Chris Dewolfe found MySpace.5

Tumblr is born, allowing its users to effortlessly share anything they want from any device while YouTube users are able to participate in a Democratic debate for the 2008 Presidential election by sending video questions.10

Perhaps the most talked-about social

network, Facebook, is created by Mark

Zuckerberg.6

Photo Credit: Jason Agron Photography —

in San Francisco, CA.

FourSquare launches, allowing its more than 40 million users to

share their loca-tion with their connections.11

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