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American social networking websites

  • FacebookIn January 2004, Mark Zuckerberg coded a new site known as TheFacebook while attending Harvard University. He met with Harvard student Eduardo Saverin, and…
  • TwitterIn March 2006, Jack Dorsey sent the first message from a service called twttr to a small group of Odeo employees. The prototype relied on Short Message…
  • MyspaceOn the 1st of August 2003, a group of employees from eUniverse launched MySpace in just ten days. Brad Greenspan oversaw the project while Chris DeWolfe…
  • RedditSteve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian launched Reddit in June 2005 while they were roommates at the University of Virginia. The pair attended a lecture by Paul…
  • LinkedInReid Hoffman and Eric Ly launched LinkedIn on the 5th of May 2003 from Mountain View, California. The platform began with a small founding team drawn from…
  • Academia.eduRichard Price launched Academia.edu in 2008 as a commercial platform for sharing academic research. The site registered its domain name in 1999 when the .edu…