A Brief History of Social Media (in just over 140 characters)
INCLUDES: INTERACTIVE TIMELINE
FILED UNDER: American History, Charts and Infographics, Economics, English Language Arts, Money, charts, Facebook, Social Media, timeline, Twitter
In February 2012, Facebook announced that it was filing for an IPO. The company, launched out of a college student’s dorm room just 8 years before then, is now estimated to be worth somewhere between $75 billion and $100 billion.
Despite the large impact it has on so many of our lives, it’s important to remember how new social media really is. How did it become a multibillion dollar industry so fast? Scroll through the timeline to learn the short of a very big idea.
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