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The 3rd Era of Social Is Coming. Are You Ready?

Contently

” And if there was any doubt that was true, it was erased for me on Monday when Wired published an expose about Facebook’s obsession over turning Instagram—its most prized subsidiary—into a TikTok clone. First, Facebook announced you’d no longer need a college email address to join the platform.

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47 Incredible Instagram Statistics

Brandwatch Marketing

Instagram launched on October 6, 2010. The first ever photo was posted by Kevin Systrom (@kevin) on Jul 16, 2010 (above). The network was bought by Facebook on 9 April 2012, for $1 billion. Instagram introduced advertising for select brands in October 2013 , but didn’t open up advertising for all until September 2015.

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The real and complete history of social media marketing

illumin

While Facebook may be only 19 as of 2023, the very first use of the internet to socialize dates all the way back to 1978 with the creation of the Computerized Hobbyists Bulletin Board System. The early 2000s also saw the birth of Facebook in 2004 (originally launched as Thefacebook).

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102 Compelling Social Media and Online Marketing Stats and Facts for 2012 (and 2013)

Webbiquity

B2B buyers are most likely to share useful vendor content via email (79%), followed by LinkedIn (53%), Twitter (39%) and Facebook (18%). Women make up the larger share of users on Facebook (58% to 42%) and are a slightly larger share on Twitter (52% to 48%) while men are the predominate users of LinkedIn (63% to 37%) and Google+ (71% to 29%).

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Content Is The Top Priority For The Social Business

Marketing Insider Group

They recently updated their “State of Social Business Maturity” report for 2013. Companies with more than 100,000 employees have moved from around 20 to almost 50 people dedicated to social media since 2010. Content wasn’t even on the list of the 2010 survey conducted by Altimeter.

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26 Google Webmaster Tools Videos Addressing Common B2B Link Building Questions

KoMarketing Associates

Created: March 4, 2010. Created: May 29, 2013. Created: December 17, 2010. In this video from 2010, Matt Cutts discusses the impact of social site activity on search rankings. In 2014, the question on the impact of Facebook and Twitter activity was asked and answered again, in a different manner. Guess what?

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99 Amazing Facts On The Future Of Business [Slides]

Marketing Insider Group

Consider: Over 40% of the companies that were at the top of the Fortune 500 in 2000 were no longer there in 2010. By the end of 2013, there will be more mobile-connected devices than there are people on earth. Facebook has more than 1 Billion network users. Content on the internet tripled between 2010 and 2013.