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Facebook was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg while he was a student at Harvard. It quickly gained popularity among students for its social networking features like profiles, newsfeeds, and sharing photos and updates. Twitter was created in 2006 and allows users to share short messages called tweets. Instagram began as a photo sharing app in 2010 and was later acquired by Facebook. It allows users to share photos and videos with filters and effects. TikTok started in 2016 as a lip-syncing app and became popular for its short music videos. It uses an algorithm to recommend new content to users based on what they watch and engage with. Snapchat, created in 2011, was one of the earliest apps to focus on ephemeral photos and videos

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History

Facebook was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg while he was a student at Harvard. It quickly gained popularity among students for its social networking features like profiles, newsfeeds, and sharing photos and updates. Twitter was created in 2006 and allows users to share short messages called tweets. Instagram began as a photo sharing app in 2010 and was later acquired by Facebook. It allows users to share photos and videos with filters and effects. TikTok started in 2016 as a lip-syncing app and became popular for its short music videos. It uses an algorithm to recommend new content to users based on what they watch and engage with. Snapchat, created in 2011, was one of the earliest apps to focus on ephemeral photos and videos

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History Features

Facebook While studying psychology at Harvard University, Mark  Newsfeed


Zuckerberg, 23, developed Facebook. Mr Zuckerberg, a
talented computer programmer, had already created a variety  Timeline
of social-networking websites for other students, such as
Coursematch, which allowed users to see who was taking  Likes and Reactions
their degree, and Facemash, which allowed users to score
people's appearance.  Comments

Mr. Zuckerberg established "The Facebook" in February  Notifications


2004; the term was derived from the pieces of paper provided
to freshmen that profiled students and staff. Within 24 hours,  Messenger
1,200 Harvard students had signed up, and after a month,
more than half of the undergraduate population had created an
account.
Twitter In March 2006, Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and  Quote a Tweet
Evan Williams founded Twitter, which premiered in July of  Twitter List
that year. In 2012, the service handled an average of 1.6  Tagging Accounts in
billion search queries per day, with more than 100 million Tweets
users posting 340 million tweets per day.  Pinning a Tweet
Instagram Burbn, a mobile check-in software built by Kevin Systrom  Video recording up to 15
and Mike Krieger, was the seed for Instagram in San seconds.
Francisco. Burbn was refocused on photo-sharing, which had  Direct messaging within
been a popular feature among Burbn users, after Systrom and Stories.
Krieger realized it was too similar to Foursquare. They  Image viewing up to 10
renamed the app Instagram, a portmanteau of "instant camera" seconds.
and "telegram"
 IGTV
 Live videos
TikTok TikTok was first published in September 2016 under the name  Video uploading
"Douyin," and was advertised as a video-sharing social  Filters and Effects
networking site akin to Facebook and Instagram. It was  Social Sharing
founded by Chinese internet company ByteDance (both of  Video Editing
which are banned in China). Musical.ly, a social networking  Likes and Comments
app that allows users (a.k.a. "Musers") to create and share  Notifications
short 15-second lip-sync videos on their platform, was bought
 Duets
by ByteDance in November 2017. Musical.ly was eventually
 Reactions
shut down by ByteDance, and the majority of its features were
absorbed into Douyin. ByteDance released TikTok, a global  Hashtags
version of Douyin, in August 2018. One of TikTok's most
appealing features is its sophisticated algorithm, which
quickly determines users' tastes and preferences depending on
how they interact with the app.
Snapchat Snapchat was developed in 2011 by Stanford University  Live video chatting
students Evan Spiegel, Reggie Brown, and Bobby Murphy.  Snaps
According to reports, Brown came up with the idea for a  Geofilters
social media app that allowed users to publish photographs  Discover
and videos that vanished after a few seconds. Brown is said to  Lenses
have pitched the idea to Spiegel, and the two agreed that a
social networking site based on disappearing content was a
good idea. Bobby Murphy was then engaged by the pair to
write the app's programming. The co-founders published
“Picaboo,” the forerunner of Snapchat, in July of 2011.
Following that, Spiegel and Murphy fired Brown from the
company.

References:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Facebook
https://www.big3.sg/blog/a-brief-history-of-tiktok-and-its-rise-to-popularity
https://nealschaffer.com/5-awesome-twitter-features/
https://sproutsocial.com/insights/instagram-features/
https://uptech.team/blog/create-app-like-tiktok

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