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1.91 Billion Social Media Users
Instagram ads are launched. Yik yak is released and failed. -
Filters are added to Social Media
People can add filters like cat, dog, puppy, sunglasses and they have continued to become more creative. This has added a lot to social media. -
Vine Ends
Very well known app gets shut down. Even though this app was very popular it was still wasn't successful. Some of the vine video clips can still be watched on twitter. -
TikTok
A video sharing application that allows user to edit videos and then share them with everyone. They are short music videos of 3-15 seconds and looping videos of 3-60 seconds. It is a very popular app and now has 500 million TikTok monthly active users globally, as of June 2018. -
2.62 Billion Social Media Users
Social media users have continued to grow. 3 Billion internet users globally, that means nearly 45% of the world population. 2.1 billion people have social media accounts. 1.7 billion people have active social media accounts. -
Virtual Reality and Fake News
Virtual reality, live videos, and 360-degree videos take over all of the video content on social media sites like Facebook, twitter and Instagram. They also crackdown on fake news on these platforms.This allows people to interact in new ways.