Social Media Platforms

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  1. 4. This is a business and employment-oriented online service that is primarily used for professional networking and career development, and allows job seekers to post their CVs and employers to post jobs.
  2. 6. This social media platform was created by a group of Harvard college students and has about 2.8 billion monthly active users today.
  3. 7. This social networking service lets you share short messages called “tweets” with your followers. Former US President Donald Trump was a big user of this service before he was removed.
  4. 9. This is a social news and discussion website that allows registered members to submit content like links, text posts, images and videos, which are then voted up or down by other members. The posts are organised by subject into user-created boards called “communities” or “subreddits”.
  5. 11. This is one of the biggest social media platforms in China, with over 445 million monthly active users. Many of its features resemble those of Twitter and later, Instagram too. This website has also come under fire for its heavy censorship of posts critical of the Chinese government.
  6. 13. One of the main features of this multimedia instant messaging app is that the picture and messages shared are usually only available for a short time before it is inaccessible to all recipients.
  7. 14. This app is described as China’s “app for everything” because of its wide range of functions. It provides text messaging, hold-to-talk voice messaging, broadcast messaging, video conferencing, video games, sharing of photographs and videos and location sharing.
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  1. 1. This online video sharing platform is owned by Google and is the second most visited website, right after Google itself. It has more than one billion monthly users, who collectively watch one billion hours of video each day.
  2. 2. This is an online art community social network that showcases users’ artwork, videography and photography. Many users post their fan art here to share with the rest of the world.
  3. 3. This image sharing and social media service is designed to enable saving and discovery of information (“ideas”) on the internet using images, GIFs and videos in the form of pinboards.
  4. 5. This is a video-focused social networking service owned by Chinese company ByteDance. It hosts a variety of short-form user videos, from genres like pranks, stunts, tricks, jokes, dance and entertainment with durations from 15 seconds to three minutes.
  5. 8. This is an instant messaging service that allows users to send text messages and voice messages, make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, locations and other content.
  6. 10. This is a video live streaming service that focuses on video game live streaming, including broadcasts of e-sports competitions.
  7. 12. This photo and video sharing social networking service lets you edit your media using filters and organise them using hashtags and geographical tagging.