A timeline of the social media happenings of 2011

1. A Social Media Timeline for 2011
by @saidwotORM and @Etta_Howell

2. Japanese Twitter users set a
new record on New Year's Twitter launches
Eve, sending an all-time high new desktop app
of 6,939 tweets per second for Mac
immediately after midnight
Facebook rolls out
Egyptian revolution
new profile look
is started and
YouTube launches spread via social
new homepage. media

3. An Egyptian baby is named
LinkedIn introduces
“Facebook” to celebrate the
LinkedIn Skills for
role that Facebook played in
profiles
the Egyptian Revolution
Earthquake in
Christchurch
Facebook rolls out measuring 6.3:
new photo viewer updates via social
media

4. 572 000 new Twitter
accounts created in a LinkedIn launches
single day, 12 March LinkedIn Today to
deliver news relevant to
individual users
Charlie Sheen’s
twitter meltdown
Earthquake and
Tsunami in Japan
Facebook launches
new Questions
feature for both
profiles and pages

5. YouTube launches
FritoLay set a World tutorials to
Record with 1 575 161 educate users
Facebook likes in 24 about copyright
hours
Protests and Civil Twitter launches
war in Lybia new search and
continues discovery tools

6. Twitter launches
News of Osama bin Laden’s follow button for
death generated the highest websites
level of sustained tweets to
date, with an average of 6
440 tweets per second
Icelandic volcano
erupts, resulting in
a flight ban

7. Foursquare hit 10
million members
Google+
launches
Facebook reaches one
trillion page views, Twitter launches
making it the most automatic link
visited Web site in the shortener.
world

8. #OccupyWallStreet
is first used
Facebook launches video
calling and group chat
features, with Skype as their
partner. Google+ becomes the
social network to
reach 10 mil users
fastest (16 days)
Facebook reaches
more than 800
Twitter makes
million active users
promoted tweets
worldwide
more visible

9. LinkedIn hit 115.8
million registered
users
Beyonce announces her
pregnancy, resulting in 8 869
tweets per second
England riots
Twitter adds activity searched 15.9
tabs to help users view million times
favourites and RTs online
easily

10. Twitter reaches 100 million
active users logging in per
YouTube adds
month and 50 million per
editing tools
day
Twitter adds
photos in text
tweets
Facebook timeline
announced at the F8 Google+ introduces
conference hangouts

11. YouTube launches
movies feature in
the UK
Google+ updates posts
and picture features Google Buzz
officially shut
down
QR codes used to Klout changes its
locate lost pets and algorithm that
luggage calculates users’
scores

12. Google+ launches
Instagram reaches 13
company pages
million users, 13
months after it
launched
Facebook adds
new insights to
pages
YouTube replaces Kim Kardashian’s divorce discussed
insights with on Twitter and
YouTube analytics #ThingsLongerThanKimsMarriage
is used

13. Facebook rolls out
Twitter launches timeline to
new design everyone
YouTube rolls out a Twitter launches
new design brand pages

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