The App TikTok (known as Douyin in China) is a free streaming service that allows users to watch, share and create short videos, using a smartphone. TikTok is one of the fastest-growing social media platforms in the world and is the most downloaded App, with it being downloaded over 2 billion times and has over 800 million active users worldwide. TikTok was launched in 2017 and started to grow after it acquired musical.ly in August 2018 and the two App services were merged. It is a free Chines...
Twitter is just one of the social media giants and is incredibly simple to set up and use. Twitter lets you send and receive short posts called Tweets, using up to 280 characters. The birth of Twitter In 2006, Jack Dorsey had an idea in which he wanted to create a platform so that friends and family could communicate with one another instantly by writing a status. Along with co-founder Evan Williams, Twitter was born and the first Tweet was sent on 21 March 2006, by Jack, saying “Just setting...
Facebook is one of the most popular social media networking sites to date. So, what exactly does Facebook do? Facebook is what is known as a social media networking website that allows you to create a profile using your name, a picture and a bio for free. By doing so, you can connect with family, friends, businesses, pages for interests and celebrities and much more. Businesses are using Facebook more than ever to help expand their reach with advertising. Humble beginnings Facebook was...
By now, most of us know about social media, even if we don’t use it. But what is it exactly? We’ll look at the origins of life before Facebook and the meteoric rise to what social media has become today and why it is gaining more popularity. Defining what social media is can be challenging and as there are varied opinions about how it should be classed, particularly as it has grown into what we know today. Humble beginnings Social media networking quite possibly has roots in 1837 with the...
