Social Media CrossWord Puzzle

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  1. 1. a micro-blogging and social networking website founded by David Karp in 2007, and owned by Yahoo! since 2013. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users' blogs. Bloggers can also make their blogs private.
  2. 7. first launched in Japan in 2011, reaching 100 million users within eighteen months and 200 million users only six months later. It became Japan's largest social network in 2013. Today the popular messaging service is operated by Line Corporation, the Japanese arm of Naver Corporation.
  3. 9. an online news and social networking service where users post and interact with messages, "tweets," restricted to 140 characters. Registered users can post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them.
  4. 12. a business and employment-oriented social networking service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Founded on December 28, 2002, and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking, including employers posting jobs and job seekers posting their CVs. As of 2015, most of the company's revenue came from selling access to information about its members to recruiters and sales professionals.
  5. 13. an online platform that provides tools and opportunities for musicians to manage their careers. Since it launched in 2006, they have introduced a number of applications and services such as the TuneWidget, Band Profile Facebook app, and Promote It.
  6. 14. an instant messaging app that provides online text message and video chat services. Users may transmit both text and video messages and may exchange digital documents such as images, text, and video. It allows video conference calls.
  7. 15. an image messaging and multimedia mobile application created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown, former students at Stanford University, and developed by Snap Inc.,
  8. 17. an American social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website. It's registered community members can submit content, such as text posts or direct links. Registered users can then vote submissions up or down to organize the posts and determine their position on the site's pages. It was founded by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian
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  1. 2. a photo, journal, and video-sharing social media network, currently owned by Hive Media. The network was owned by SpinMedia (formerly Buzz Media) from its inception until September 2016.
  2. 3. an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; it now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries.
  3. 4. a free cross-platform instant messaging and voice over IP (VoIP) application that was first developed and popularized by the Israeli company Viber Media that was bought by the Japanese multinational company Rakuten. In addition to instant messaging, users can exchange images, video and audio media messages by sending files to each other. As of December 2016, it had 800 million registered users.
  4. 5. a web and mobile application company that operates a photo sharing website. Registration is required for use. The site was founded by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra and Evan Sharp.
  5. 6. an online community. The website was launched on August 7, 2000, by Angelo Sotira, Scott Jarkoff, Matthew Stephens, and others. Artworks are organized in a category structure, including photography, digital art, traditional art, literature, Flash, filmmaking, skins for applications, operating system customization utilities and others, along with downloadable resources such as tutorials and stock photography. Additional features include "journals", "polls", "groups" and "portfolios".
  6. 8. an American for-profit corporation and an online social media and social networking service based in Menlo Park, California. The ________ website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg
  7. 10. a short-form video hosting service where users could share six-second-long looping video clips. On October 27, 2016, It was announced that it would disable uploads, but viewing and download would continue to work.
  8. 11. a mobile photo-sharing application and service that allows users to share pictures and videos either publicly or privately on the service, as well as through a variety of other social networking platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Flickr. Originally, a distinctive feature was its confining of photos to a square, similar to Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid SX-70 images, in contrast to the 4:3 aspect ratio typically used by mobile-device cameras
  9. 16. an image hosting and video hosting website and web services suite that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo on March 20, 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, and effectively an online community, the service is widely used by photo researchers and by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media.