Here for your enjoyment is a quick glance at some social networking site facts!
Launched: 2004
Founders: Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes
Headquarters: Menlo Park, California, USA
Number of users: 1.19 billion (active)
What can you do?: Create a profile, share status updates, photos and videos, create events, post on someone’s Timeline, Like pages, join groups, send messages, hashtag trends
Launched: 2006
Founders: Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Evan Williams and Biz Stone
Headquarters: San Francisco, California, USA
Number of users: 500 million (200+ active users)
What can you do?: Create a profile and bio, share status updates (tweets) in 140 characters, follow and be followed by users, follow hashtag trends, retweet, send direct messages
Launched: 2003
Founders: Reid Hoffman, Allen Blue, Konstantin Guericke, Eric Ly and Jean-Luc Vaillant
Headquarters: Mountain View, California, USA
Number of users: 259 million
What can you do?: Create an online CV, connect with fellow professionals to increase your network, search for jobs, follow companies, join groups, send messages, search for news stories, update your status
Google+
Launched: 2011
Founders: Owned by Google; their founders: Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Headquarters: Menlo Park, California, USA
Number of users: 540 million (300+ active users)
What can you do?: Create a profile and bio, add users to your circles, create hangouts, join Google+ pages, join communities, +1 something, share photos and videos, create events, hashtag trends, use Google search, message users
(For the pros and cons of Google+, please see: ‘Google Plus or Google Minus’)
Launched: 2010
Founders: Paul Sciarra, Evan Sharp and Ben Silbermann
Headquarters: San Francisco, California, USA
Number of users: 70 million
What can you do?: Create a profile, create ‘boards’, ‘pin’ photos of your hobbies and interests on those boards, follow other users boards and repin their posts
Tumblr
Launched: 2007
Founder: David Karp (Owned by Yahoo!)
Headquarters: New York City, USA
Number of users: 216.3 million monthly visitors
What can you do?: Create a profile, write blog posts, follow and be followed by other users
WordPress
Launched: 2003
Founders: Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little
Headquarters: San Francisco, California, USA
Number of users: 73 million
What can you do?: Create a profile, write blog posts, follow and be followed by other users
Flickr
Launched: 2004
Founders: Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake (Owned by Yahoo!)
Headquarters: Sunnyvale, California, USA
Number of users: 87 million
What can you do?: Create a profile, share photos and videos
YouTube
Launched: 2005
Founders: Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim (Owned by Google)
Headquarters: San Bruno, California, USA
Number of users: 1 billion
What can you do?: Create a profile, share videos, follow other users channels, have others follow your channels
Launched: 2010
Founders: Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger (Owned by Facebook)
Headquarters:, Menlo Park, California, USA
Number of users: 150 million
What can you do?: A mobile app that enables you to create a profile bio, share photos, follow and be followed by other users, hashtag trends, send direct messages
Snapchat
Launched: 2011
Founders: Evan Spiegel and Robert Murphy
Headquarters:, Menlo Park, California, USA – (Stanford, California)
Number of users: 350 million
What can you do?: A mobile app that enables you to create a username, send photos and videos whilst adding text and drawings to them; the snaps are sent like text messages and will be accessible for one to ten seconds
Vine
Launched: 2013
Founders: Dom Hofmann, Rus Yusupov, and Colin Kroll (Owned by Twitter)
Headquarters: San Francisco, California, USA
Number of users: 40 million
What can you do?: A mobile app that enables you to post short video clips for a maximum of six seconds
So there you have it. That’s a quick overview of the details of all the main social networking sites. Hope you liked all those facts! Please follow my blog for more digital marketing posts or my Twitter account @DigitalStuart
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