Social Media History

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Question 1

What site launched in 1997 by Andrew Weinreich is widely recognized by historians as the very first modern social networking platform?

Question 2

What social platform founded by Jonathan Abrams in 2002 became an explosive viral phenomenon before server crashes degraded its performance?

Question 3

Who was the ubiquitous default first friend assigned to every new registered user on MySpace?

Question 4

What was the original 140-character limitation on Twitter posts specifically designed to match in 2006?

Question 5

What was the initial name of Facebook when Mark Zuckerberg launched it from his Harvard dorm room in February 2004?

Question 6

Which ephemeral video-sharing platform founded by Colin Kroll, Dom Hofmann, and Rus Yusupov in 2012 limited videos to looping six seconds?

Question 7

What viral social feature did Snapchat introduce in October 2013 that allowed users to post photos that vanished after 24 hours?

Question 8

What Chinese short-video lip-sync app, acquired by ByteDance in 2017 for nearly $1 billion, was merged into TikTok?

Question 9

What 2004 photo-sharing social platform created by Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake was acquired by Yahoo in 2005?

Question 10

What location-based social platform launched by Dennis Crowley in 2009 pioneered gamified 'check-ins' and crowning users as virtual 'Mayors'?

What site launched in 1997 by Andrew Weinreich is widely recognized by historians as the very first modern social networking platform?