Types of Social Media

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    Social media is a phrase that we throw around a lot these days, often to describe what we post on sites and apps like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and others. Most people today define social media as apps on their smartphone or tablet, but the truth is, this communication tool started with computers that enable people to interact with each other by both sharing and consuming information.
  • Social Network - sites that allow you to interact with other people (facebook, google+)      

  • Bookmarking Sites - allow to store and manage links (pinterest)
  • Social News - allow users to post their own news items or links to other news sources (reddit, digg)

     
  • Media Sharing - sites that allow you to upload your photos, videos and audio to  website that can be accessed from anywhere in the world (youtube, instagram)
            
  • Microblogging - allows users to create short messages to be posted and shared with an audience online (twitter, plurk)
     
  • Blogs and Forums - website that dislplay postings by one or more individuals in chronological order and usually has links to comments on specific postings (blogger, wordpress, tumblr)
     

Comments

  1. MarkFebruary 11, 2018 at 3:48 AM

    How did twitter is classified as micro blogging ?

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  2. UnknownFebruary 13, 2018 at 5:06 PM

    Twitter is a microblogging social network site because it only allows to create short messages or posts called tweets. It only has a character limit of 280.

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