1. INTERACTIVE MEDIA

2.  Size shape and structure- employs around 34,300 people each year
and is worth many billions of pounds. The use of interactive media is
increasing across every sector in the media industry as it’s used
everyday across all the sectors. Because of this it is linked with the
other industries. For example social media websites such as twitter
have advertising thus linking the advertising sector to the interactive
media sector.

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Twitter was made in march 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass. Twitter is social
media website where people can send and read tweets. Tweets can have pictures attached, the max number of
words each tweet can have is 140. San Francisco is where twitter is based. It has many offices for example offices
in New York City, Boston, San Antonio and Detroit. Twitter is a public company. Twitter is one of the 10 most
visited websites across the world. Jack Dorsey is CEO of Square, a mobile payments company. Evan williams is
the founder of many internet companies such as the company Medium.
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Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004, it is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, US.
Facebook allows people to post pictures, send messages and interact through the internet with friends and family.
Facebook has 1.15 billion users. It is a public company. Mark Zuckerberg introduced Beacon, a social
advertising system that enabled people to share information with their facebook.

4.  Other media industries use twitter to promote products, music and
TV shows. They use twitter as it’s a worldwide social network website
which has millions of users, this allows for example a musician to
promote their songs. It also allows fans to keep up to date with their
interests of their favourite musician etc. TV channels use twitter to
enable people to know when certain shows are going to be airing.