acebook is an online social networking website] Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.[6] 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 before it opened to high-school students, and eventually to anyone aged 13 and over. Facebook now allows anyone who claims to be at least 13 years old to become a registered user of the website.
Facebook is now the second biggest website in the world, only behind Google in the rankings on the US and in the whole world according to Alexa. In January 2014 its market capitalization had risen to over $134 billion. At the end of January 2014, 1.23 billion users were active on the website every month, while on December 31, 2013, 945 million of this total were identified by the company as mobile users.
Most of Facebook's revenue comes from advertising. Facebook generally has a lower clickthrough rate (CTR) for advertisements than most major Web sites. According to BusinessWeek.com, banner advertisements on Facebook have generally received one-fifth the number of clicks compared to those on the Web as a whole.
On February 14, 2014, Facebook added a feature that allows users to choose up to 10 different gender definitions from more than 50 options, including “cisgender,” and "intersex," as a progression from the previous format that only permitted "male" and "female" to be selected as a gender description. An announcement of the addition was made on the "Facebook Diversity" Facebook page alongside a photograph of rainbow-colored pieces of material hanging over a footbridge. Facebook's official statement read: "People can already opt out of showing their sex on their profile. We’re constantly innovating on our products and features and we welcome input from everyone as we explore ways to improve the Facebook experience.
Facebook went Public in May 2012 and was one of the biggest in technology, and the biggest in Internet history, with a peak market capitalization of over $104 billion.
Twitter
Twitter is the micro blogging site that has taken over the social media world in a few short years. Everybody from politicians, celebrities and ordinary folk have profiles on the site and you can air your thoughts and opinions, all under 140 characters.
Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass and by July 2006, the site was launched. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with 500 million registered users in 2012, who posted 340 million tweets per day. The service also handled 1.6 billion search queries per day.
It is the 11th most viewed site in the world and is said to be the SMS of Social Media.The country with the most traffic going to twitter is the US where it is 9th most viewed site in the country
Twitter went public in November 2013 and has shown strong growth ever since, and unlike it's rival facebook there are no signs of the site slowing down.It's stock price is 58.07 and growing. Nearly every public figure has a twitter page. The most followed people on the site are
- Katy Perry 50 Million followers
- Justin Bieber 49.5 Million followers
- Barack Obama 41.3 Million followers
- Lady Gaga 41 Million followers
- Youtube 39 Million followers
- Taylor Swift 38 Million followers
- Britney Spears 35 Million followers
- Rihanna 34 Million Followers
- Instagram 30.7 Million followers
- Justin Timberlake 30.5 Million followers
Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows members of the public to publish their own blogs. It was developed by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com. A user can have up to 100 blogs per account. It was founded by Evan Williams and his company Pyra Labs in 1999. It has a global ranking of 54 and the country that it gets most of its traffic is America where it it the 68th most visited site in the country. Most of it's users are female it is mostly accessed in schools according to Alexa.com.
Tumblr, stylized in its logo as tumblr., is a microblogging platform and social networking website founded by David Karp and owned by Yahoo! Inc. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users' blogs, as well as make their blogs private. Much of the website's features are accessed from the "dashboard" , where the option to post content and posts of followed blogs appear.
As of February 7, 2014, Tumblr hosts over 170.2 million blogs. The company's headquarters is in New York City.
Yahoo! announced its intention to acquire Tumblr on May 20, 2013, for approximately $1.1 billion and The deal closed on June 20, 2013. However there was some outcry from tumblrs teenage users on twitter who felt Yahoo was to old and out of touch to control Tumblr. They thought that they would try and censor the site and not let them post freely, although this does not seemed to have come to fruition.
It has a global ranking of 32 according to alexa and the site revives most of it's traffic from the US where it is the 17th most visited site in the country.
According to Forbes, Tumblr has been valued at $800 million and it's founder and CEO David Kerp's fortune had been estimated to be $200 million.
The Most Popular Blogs on Tumblr are
- Mcupdate.tumblr.com (1.9 million unique monthly visitors): A blog dedicated to news about Minecraft, a game about blocks.
- comoeumesintoquando.tumblr.com (1.2 million unique monthly visitors): A collection of hilarious GIFs.
- dedalvs.tumblr.com (1.1 million unique monthly visitors): The personal blog of David J. Peterson, the guy who created the Dothraki and Valyrian languages for HBO's Game of Thrones.
- onenable.tumblr.com (715.6 thousand unique monthly visitors): A site dedicated to Korean comics.
- theworstroom.tumblr.com (707 thousand unique monthly visitors): A blog about the trials and tribulations of finding housing in New York City.
- publicshaming.tumblr.com (645.7 thousand unique monthly visitors): Created by producer Matt Binder, Public Shaming will call you out if you start tweeting hypocritical content.
- siriuslymeg.tumblr.com (606.3 thousand unique monthly visitors): A blog all about movie quotes and inside jokes.
- howdoiputthisgently.tumblr.com (525.3 thousand unique monthly visitors): A graduate student documents her life through GIFs.
- comedycentral.tumblr.com (490.7 thousand unique monthly visitors): Comedy Central's official blog.
- reasonsmysoniscrying.tumblr.com (449.7 thousand unique monthly visitors): A blog that documents all the reasons why children cry.
you can find more on these sites and others from my piece on google drive
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