February 2020
Beginner
448 pages
11h 21m
English
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Chapter 7
Finding the Right Platforms
IN THIS CHAPTER
Choosing the right social platform
Understanding your audience’s activity
Becoming more niche-savvy
Helping staff understand social media in action
If you have been an Internet user since the mid-1990s, you probably know that the popular social platforms today are not the first to have been launched. Many came before Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram. In some cases, those early social networks and online communities were extremely successful, too. For example, back in the mid-1990s, The Well was considered the most influential online community. It wasn’t the largest, but it was the most influential.
GeoCities, which rose to fame in the late 1990s and was bought by Yahoo! for a whopping $3.57 billion at its peak, boasted millions of active accounts. Friendster, which was the darling of the social networking world in 2003 and 2004, fizzled when its technical infrastructure and lack of new features pushed people in America away from it. (Approximately 80 percent of its traffic came from Asia in its final years, until it ...
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