This document lists the top 10 social media websites according to Cygnis Media. It provides brief descriptions of each website, including LinkedIn for professional networking, Twitter for microblogging, Facebook as a social networking site, YouTube for video sharing, Wikipedia as a collaboratively edited online encyclopedia, Technorati for searching blogs, Digg as a news aggregator, Upcoming as a former social event calendar, Yahoo Answers for question/answering, and Yelp for user reviews of local businesses.

1. Top 10 Social Media
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2. Top 10 Social Website
LinkedIn.com
Twitter.com
Facebook.com
YouTube.com
Wikipedia.org
Technoratimedia.com
Digg.com
Upcoming.org
Answers.yahoo.com
Yelp.com

3. LinkedIn
 LinkedIn is a social networking website for people in
professional occupations. Founded in December 2002
and launched on May 5, 2003 it is mainly used for
professional networking. As of June 2013, LinkedIn
reports more than 225 million acquired users in more
than 200 countries and territories. The site is available
in 20 languages..

4. Twitter
 Twitter is an online social networking service and
microblogging service that enable its users to send and
read text-based messages of up to 140 characters,
known as "tweets".
 Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and
in July, the social networking site was launched. The
service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over
500 million registered users as of 2012, generating over
340 million tweets daily and handling over 1.6 billion
search queries per day.

5. Facebook
 Facebook is an online social networking service. Its
name stems from the colloquial name for the book
given to students at the start of the academic year by
some American university administrations to help
students get to know each other. Facebook was
founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with
his college roommates and fellow Harvard University
students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin
Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.

6. YouTube
 YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three
former PayPal employees in February 2005 and owned
by Google since late 2006, on which users can upload,
view and share videos.

7. Wikipedia
 Wikipedia is a collaboratively edited, multilingual, the
free Internet encyclopedia supported by the non-
profit Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia's 30 million
articles in 287 languages, including over 4.3 million in
the English Wikipedia, are written collaboratively by
volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles
can be edited by anyone having access to the site.

8. Technorati
 Technorati is an Internet search engine for
searching blogs. By June 2008, Technorati
was indexing 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million
pieces of tagged social media. The name Technorati is
a blend of the words technology and literati, which
invokes the notion of technological intelligence or
intellectualism.

9. Digg
 Digg is a news aggregator with an editorially driven
front page, aiming to select stories specifically for the
Internet audience such as science, trending political
issues, and viral Internet issues. It was launched in its
current form on July 31, 2012, with support for sharing
content to other social platforms such as Twitter and
Facebook.

10. Upcoming
 Upcoming (formerly Upcoming.org) was a social
event calendar website that launched in 2003,
founded by Andy Baio. On October 4, 2005,
Upcoming.org was acquired by Yahoo!. In April
2013, Yahoo announced the retirement of
Upcoming, Upcoming combined features of an
event calendar and a social networking site.

11. Answers. Yahoo
 Yahoo! Answers is a website that allows users to both
submit questions to be answered and answer questions
asked by other users.

12. Yelp
 Yelp, Inc. Is an American company that operates a
local search website founded by Jeremy
Stoppelman and Russel Simmons in 2004. The
website was re-launched in February 2005 with a
focus on user reviews. Between 2005 and 2010, Yelp
received $130 million in funding, and became a
publicly traded company in the US stock market in
2012.

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