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Play this social media quiz on platform history — 15 medium-level questions and answers.
1. In what year was Instagram launched?
💡 Instagram launched in 2010, initially focused on photo sharing with filters.
2. In what year was Pinterest launched?
💡 Pinterest launched in 2010, focusing on visual discovery and idea-sharing through 'pins'.
3. Which platform is credited with pioneering the 'Stories' format, later adopted by many others?
💡 Snapchat pioneered the 24-hour 'Stories' format, which was later widely adopted by Instagram, Facebook, and other platforms.
4. Which company acquired YouTube in 2006?
💡 Google acquired YouTube in 2006, shortly after the platform launched.
5. Which app, originally called Musical.ly, later became a major short-video platform after being acquired?
💡 Musical.ly was acquired and merged into what became TikTok, now a dominant short-video platform.
6. Which platform did Elon Musk rename to 'X' after acquiring it in 2022?
💡 Elon Musk acquired Twitter in 2022 and later rebranded the platform as 'X'.
7. In what decade did the earliest social networking sites, like SixDegrees.com, first emerge?
💡 SixDegrees.com, an early social networking site, launched in 1997, in the late 1990s.
8. In what year was YouTube founded?
💡 YouTube was founded in 2005, becoming one of the largest video-sharing platforms in the world.
9. Which company acquired Instagram in 2012?
💡 Facebook, now known as Meta, acquired Instagram in 2012.
10. Which platform was originally launched under the name 'Twttr' before becoming Twitter?
💡 Twitter was initially launched in 2006 under the name 'Twttr' before adopting its more familiar name.
11. In what year did TikTok launch internationally under that name?
💡 TikTok launched internationally under that name in 2018, after merging with Musical.ly.
12. In what year was Facebook founded?
💡 Facebook was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and several Harvard classmates.
13. Which social media platform did Reddit describe itself as when it launched in 2005?
💡 Reddit has long described itself with the tagline 'The Front Page of the Internet'.
14. In what year was Snapchat launched?
💡 Snapchat launched in 2011, pioneering the concept of disappearing photo messages.
15. In what year was LinkedIn founded?
💡 LinkedIn was founded in 2003, focusing on professional networking.