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  2. Social media as a news source - Wikipedia

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    The number of people who use social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or Snapchat as ways to seek information has increased significantly in recent years especially for people who are part of the younger generation.TikTok is a rapidly expanding platform that young adults can use to find news content on social media.

  3. List of social platforms with at least 100 million active users

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    Instagram: Meta Platforms United States: 2010 2 billion [4] 500 million daily Instagram Stories users [5] 5 TikTok: ByteDance China [6] [7] 2016 1.582 billion [3] 6 WeChat: Tencent China: 2011 1.343 billion [3] 7 Messenger: Meta Platforms United States: 2011 1.01 billion [3] 8 Telegram: Telegram United Arab Emirates [8] 2013 950 million [9] 9 ...

  4. Social media - Wikipedia

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    The PLATO system was launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation.It offered early forms of social media features with innovations such as Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowdsourced online newspaper, and blog ...

  5. China-linked 'Spamouflage' network mimics Americans online to ...

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    X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, suspended several of the accounts linked to the Spamouflage network after questions were raised about their authenticity.

  6. Father turns in 10-year-old son after he allegedly threatened ...

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    A 10-year-old Florida boy’s father turned him in after he made a threat to "shoot up" a high school on Snapchat, authorities announced Friday.

  7. Social media marketing - Wikipedia

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    Social networking sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, MySpace etc. have all influenced the buzz of word of mouth marketing. In 1999, Misner said that word-of mouth marketing is, "the world's most effective, yet least understood marketing strategy" (Trusov, Bucklin, & Pauwels, 2009, p. 3). [ 96 ]

  8. Timeline of social media - Wikipedia

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    Facebook acquires Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock. [63] 2013 Launch, Acquisition Vine, a video-sharing and social media service, launches shortly after being acquired by Twitter for $30 million. [64] [65] 2013 Launch Twitter files for its IPO, and begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The share closed at $44.90, giving the ...

  9. Instagram - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Instagram[a] is a photo and video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms. It allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters, be organized by hashtags, and be associated with a location via geographical tagging. Posts can be shared publicly or with preapproved followers.