{"id":2418,"date":"2024-11-10T11:18:03","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T09:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digibrain.gr\/?p=2418"},"modified":"2024-10-05T18:30:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T15:30:26","slug":"social-media-7-fun-facts-you-probably-didnt-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digibrain.gr\/en\/social-media-7-fun-facts-you-probably-didnt-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media: 7 fun facts you probably didn’t know"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you a huge fan of social media? Do you love scrolling through memes, sharing stories, and commenting on your friends’ posts? We love it too! That\u2019s why we\u2019ve gathered 7 fun facts about social media that might surprise you!<\/p>\n

You can also read: How does the Instagram algorithm work?<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

They Started as a Hobby<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Did you think social media was created to keep us glued to our screens? Actually, many started as hobbies! For instance, Facebook<\/a> was created by Mark Zuckerberg as a project for his Computer Science class at Harvard.<\/p>\n

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Twitter Was Born in a Bar<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The idea for Twitter was “born” in a bar in San Francisco during a brainstorming session. It started as a “status update” tool for groups and evolved into the platform we know today\u2014though it was recently rebranded as “X.”<\/p>\n

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Instagram Exists Thanks to a Failure<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Before Instagram, its founders created an app called Burbn<\/em>, which failed. However, they saw potential in the photo-posting feature, leading to the creation of Instagram.<\/p>\n

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Snapchat Rejected a $3 Billion Offer<\/strong><\/h5>\n

In its early years, Snapchat received a $3 billion buyout offer from Facebook. Its founder, Evan Spiegel, declined the offer, and now the company is worth over $30 billion!<\/p>\n

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YouTube Hosts 1 Billion Hours of Video Every Day<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Unbelievable, right? Every day, YouTube users upload and watch 1 billion hours of video! That’s equivalent to 300,000 years’ worth of content\u2026 daily!<\/p>\n

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LinkedIn Has More Members Than China\u2019s Population<\/strong><\/h5>\n

With over 830 million registered users, LinkedIn has more members than the population of China, which has 1.4 billion people!<\/p>\n

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TikTok Is the Most Downloaded App in the World<\/strong><\/h5>\n

For three years in a row, TikTok has been the most downloaded app globally, surpassing 3 billion downloads!<\/p>\n

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Pretty mind-blowing, right? Social media has come a long way and become an essential part of our daily lives. Who knows what the future holds for these platforms?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you a huge fan of social media? Do you love scrolling through memes, sharing stories, and commenting on your friends’ posts? We love it too! That\u2019s why we\u2019ve gathered 7 fun facts about social media that might surprise you! You can also read: How does the Instagram algorithm work? They Started as a Hobby…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[259,253,293,262],"class_list":["post-2418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-marketing-en","tag-digital-agency-en","tag-digital-marketing-en","tag-instagram-en","tag-social-media-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digibrain.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digibrain.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digibrain.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digibrain.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digibrain.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digibrain.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2421,"href":"https:\/\/digibrain.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418\/revisions\/2421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digibrain.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digibrain.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digibrain.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digibrain.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}