Popular Social Media Sites and their Founders
Social Media is a user-generated digital technology that enables us to exchange ideas, empower our careers, interact with family and friends, market our business and products, etc.
It basically gives us a platform for sharing whatever our interests are on a global level. Platforms may differ in features and functionality, sometimes it may be blogs, forums, websites, or applications, yet they deliver our interest to the target audience.
List of Social Media Sites and their Founders
In this post, we will be listing some of the popular social media platforms, their founders, and the year in which they were founded in chronological order.
Name | Year | Founder ---------------------------------------- Name: Wikipedia Year: 2001 Founder: Larry Sanger & Jimmy Wales --- Name: StumbleUpon Year: 2001 Founder: Eric Boyd, Garrett Camp & Geoff Smith --- Name: LinkedIn Year: 2002 Founder: Reid Hoffman --- Name: Myspace Year: 2003 Founder: Tom Anderson & Chris DeWolfe --- Name: Skype Year: 2003 Founder: Niklas Zennström & Janus Friis --- Name: Orkut Year: 2004 Founder: Orkut Büyükkökten --- Name: Facebook Year: 2004 Founder: Mark Zuckerberg --- Name: Digg Year: 2004 Founder: Kevin Rose & Jay Adelson --- Name: Flickr Year: 2004 Founder: Stewart Butterfield & Caterina Fake --- Name: Hi5 Year: 2004 Founder: Ramu Yalamanchi --- Name: Tagged Year: 2004 Founder: Greg Tseng & Johann Schleier-Smith --- Name: Reddit Year: 2005 Founder: Aaron Swartz*, Steve Huffman & Alexis Ohanian --- Name: YouTube Year: 2005 Founder: Chad Hurley, Steve Chen & Jawed Karim --- Name: Twitter Year: 2006 Founder: Jack Dorsey --- Name: Tumblr Year: 2007 Founder: David Karp --- Name: Whatsapp Year: 2009 Founder: Jon Kaum & Brian Acton --- Name: Foursquare Year: 2009 Founder: Dennis Crowley & Naveen Selvadurai --- Name: Instagram Year: 2010 Founder: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger --- Name: Pinterest Year: 2010 Founder: Ben Silbermann --- Name: Quora Year: 2010 Founder: Adam D’Angelo & Charlie Cheever --- Name: Viber Year: 2010 Founder: Talmon Marco & Igor Magazinnik --- Name: Line Year: 2011 Founder: Hae Jin Lee --- Name: WeChat Year: 2011 Founder: Allen Zhang --- Name: Google+ Year: 2011 Founder: Vic Gundotra & Bradley Horowitz --- Name: Snapchat Year: 2011 Founder: Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy & Reggie Brown --- Name: Discord Year: 2012 Founder: Jason Citron --- Name: Tinder Year: 2012 Founder: Sean Rad, Justin Mateen, Whitney Wolfe --- Name: Telegram Year: 2013 Founder: Pavel Durov & Nikolai --- Name: TikTok Year: 2016 Founder: ByteDance --- Name: Signal Year: 2018 Founder: Brian Acton & Moxie Marlinspike --- Name: Clubhouse Year: 2020 Founder: Paul Davison & Rohan Seth ---
Some of the websites such as Digg, Myspace, Tagged, StumbleUpon, etc may look unfamiliar, but they were the movers and shakers of their time.
📝 SideNotes-(7)
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| The social media that stopped its functioning in 2019 | Google+ |
| The social media website that was launched on Valentine's Day | |
| As of 2021, the largest active global social media network | |
| The initial name of Snapchat | Picaboo |
| The social media service that was banned in India during the coronavirus pandemic | TikTok (June 29, 2020)* |
| The social networking site that doesn't allow users to post photos or videos via a desktop computer | Instagram (after acquisition by Facebook) |
| The first popular social media site in the world based on the modern concept | Six Degrees ( Founder: Andrew Weinreich, 1996) |
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