TOP 10 SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES
1. Facebook
USERS:-1.44 billion monthly active users (March 31,2015)
FOUNDED ON :-04 FAB 2004
FOUNDERS:- Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Chris Hughes
HEADQUARTER:- Menlo Park, California, United States
Facebook is an online social networking service.Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg with his Harvard College roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes The founders had initially limited the website's membership to Harvard students, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities and later to high-school students. Since 2006, anyone who is at least 13 years old was allowed to become a registered user of the website,WIKIPEDIA
2. Twitter
USERS:-332 million active (January 2016)
FOUNDED ON:- San Francisco, California, United States
FOUNDERS:-Evan Williams, Noah Glass,Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone
HEADQUARTER:-March 21, 2006
Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets".Registered users can read and post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them.Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMSor mobile device app.WIKIPEDIA
3. LinkedIn
USERS:-Over 400 million
FOUNDED ON:-December 2002
FOUNDERS:- Reid Hoffman, Konstantin Guericke, Jean-Luc Vaillant, Allen Blue,Eric Ly
HEADQUARTER:-Mountain View, California, United States
LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking service. Founded in December 2002 and launched on May 5, 2003,it is mainly used forprofessional networking. As of 2015, most of the site's revenue comes from selling access to information about its users to recruiters and sales professionals.WIKIPEDIA
4. Google+
USERS:-NOT AVAILABLE
FOUNDED ON:-June 28, 2011
FOUNDERS:-GOOGLE
HEADQUARTER:-345 Spear St, San Francisco, CA 94105, United States
Google+ launched in June 2011. Features included the ability to post photos and status updates to the stream or interest based communities, group different types of relationships (rather than simply "friends") into Circles, a multi-person instant messaging, text and video chat called Hangouts, events, location tagging, and the ability to edit and upload photos to private cloud-based albums.WIKIPEDIA
5. YouTube
USERS:-NOT AVAILABLE
FOUNDED ON:-FABRUARY 15,2005
FOUNDERS:- Chad Hurley, Steve Chen,Jawed Karim
HEADQUARTER:- San Bruno, California, United States
YouTube is a video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States. The service was created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005. In November 2006, it was bought by Google for US$1.65 billion.Wikipedia
6. Pinterest
USERS:-70 million
FOUNDED ON:-March 2010
FOUNDERS:-Ben Silbermann,Paul Sciarra and Evan Sharp
HEADQUARTER:-San Francisco, California,United States
Pinterest is a free website that requires registration to use.[4] Users can upload, save, sort, and manage images—known as pins—and other media content (e.g., videos) through collections known as pinboards wikipedia
7. Instagram
USERS:-300 million monthly active users
FOUNDED ON:-October 2010
FOUNDERS:- Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger
HEADQUARTER:-
Instagram is an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing, and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, and share them either publicly or privately on the app, as well as through a variety of other social networking platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Flickr. a distinctive feature was that it confined photos to a square shape, similar to Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid images, in contrast to the 4:3 aspect ratio typically used by mobile device camera more
8. Tumblr
USERS:-277.2 million blogs
FOUNDED ON:- February 2007
FOUNDERS:- David Karp
HEADQUARTER:- New York City, New York, United States
Tumblr (stylized as tumblr.) is a microblogging platform and social networking website founded by David Karp and since 2013 owned by Yahoo! Inc. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. more
9. Flickr
USERS:-NIL
FOUNDED ON:-February 10, 2004
FOUNDERS:-Ludicorp
HEADQUARTER:-St San Francisco, California
Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, and web services suite that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, and effectively an online community, the service is widely used by photo researchers and by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media. more
10. Reddit
USERS:-542 million monthly visitors
FOUNDED ON:-June 23, 2005
FOUNDERS:-Steve Huffman,Alexis Ohanian
HEADQUARTER:-San Francisco, California, U.S.
In June 2005, Reddit was founded in Medford, Massachusetts by Steve Huffmanand Alexis Ohanian, both 22-year-old graduates of the University of Virginia. The team expanded to include Christopher Slowe in November 2005. Between November 2005 and January 2006 Reddit merged with Aaron Swartz's company Infogami, and Swartz became an equal owner of the resulting parent company,more
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