Social media sites are now an incredible part of the modern web world. Not only for individual networking, Social media platforms are playing a great role in business also. There are many popular social media platforms that continuously dominating the web. Today I will share an overview look of some
popular social media sites that will dominate 2017.
Facebook
Now, Facebook is a dominating name in the social networking online world. This biggest social media site founded on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg. Within 12 years, Facebook has successfully achieved more than 1.60 billion monthly active users. According to their reports, about 1 million business also engaged on Facebook to promote their business online. Without any doubt, it can be said that really Facebook made one of the successful social networks in the online world and obviously they will dominate next years like as previous.
YouTube
Youtube is another big social media platform. But It is a video sharing website. Peoples love to watch videos online and obviously on YouTube. Now, YouTube has considered also as a social media platform. This largest video sharing based social media site started on February 14, 2005, by three former Paypal employees. But in November 20016, Google acquired YouTube for 1.65 billion dollars. More than 1 billion unique visitors visit YouTube per month. YouTube also recognized as the second largest search engine. In a sentence, YouTube is the best social media site for video marketing.
Twitter
Another big & popular social media platform is Twitter. Its also called as microblogging site. It allows it's users to post only about 140 characters updates. But the amazing fact is that Twitter has more than 320 million active users per month. Generally, celebrities and big business use it for posting their latest updates & general users use Twitter to follow them. Twitter founded on March 21, 2006. Its headquarters situated in San Francisco, California.
LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a popular social networking platform for professionals. It has more than 400 million registered professional people. LinkedIn is an amazing platform to connect with other professionals according to industries & networks. On December 14, 2002, LinkedIn founded & on May 5, 2003, It launched.
Google+
Google Plus became another popular social media site only because of the largest online brand name 'Google'. It hasn't amazing features like as other social media platforms. But the SEO power has made it one of the dominating platform. That is why small businesses use Google+ for SEO benefits. Google launched this social media platform on December 15, 2011.
Pinterest
Pinterest is a newcomer social media platform. Because It launched in March 2010. Actually, Pinterest is a digital bulletin board. By the way, It became popular quickly. According to a report of September 2015, Pinterest achieved 100 million users. Definitely, It will dominate the social media arena 2017.
Instagram
Instagram is a visual-based social media platform owned by Facebook. More than 400 million users actively use this platform per month. It has also amazing editing feature for photos & videos. A report shows that 95% Instagram users also use Facebook.
Tumblr
Tumblr is a blogging platform consider as social media site. David Karp founded this site in February 2007. Users can create their personal blog in Tumblr & able to post status, photos, videos, audio & much more. Till now Tumblr hosted more than 200 million blogs.
Flickr
Flickr is a Photography sharing social media site. Million photographs are shared daily on Flickr. It started it's journey on February 10, 2014. Yahoo acquired Flickr on 2005. More than 112 million users use Flickr.
Quora
Quora is a question-answer based popular social media site. Peoples ask their questions & answer one's another. Quora receives more than 80 million unique visitors and the authority claimed that half of total visitors are American. Recently, this site managed $141 venture capital funds. Quora launched in June 2009.
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