Top Social
This number one social network goes head-to-head with Google on a daily basis for top referrer to many major sites, and for top most-visited site on the web.
What is Facebook?
A mobile-based media famous for allowing users to post and share photo and video messages anonymously, leading many users sharing secrets and gossip.
What is Whisper?
A way to shout out to other users of a social network in a post, comment or tweet.
What is mentions (@)?
A 140 character SMS compatible message that makes up all of Twitter's content
What is a tweet?
An option for businesses that must be integrated into a marketing plan to expect sales to increase.
What is social networking?
The second largest search platform, this video-based social media is second largest social network by some measures.
What is YouTube?
A blog site platform made unique by its “reblog this” feature similar to a retweet but for entire posts, media included.
What is Tumblr?
A button placed on Web sites and blogs that Facebook members click to approve of the latest posts from those venues on their personal news feed
What is a like?
Feed which you receive straight into your account on TikTok?
What is 'For You Page'?
This large platform was bought out by a rich industrialist for a whopping $44 billion dollars and was controversially renamed shortly after being acquired.
What is X (formerly known as Twitter)?
This social networking site gained traction with teenagers and young adults and changed the landscape of early 2000s social media; in 2003 one million users signed up in the first month.
What is MySpace?
Attaching short, searchable phrases as labels to posts, images, etc. allowing for easy linking and navigation.
What is tagging?
Another name for your profile picture.
What is an avatar?
In 2008 this site was launched to post daily deals to leverage the collective power of large groups.
What is Groupon?
As of July 2024, this video sharing app has 1.04 billion monthly active users worldwide, with over 150 million in the United States alone. The app is available in more than 160 countries and is expected to surpass 1.8 billion users by the end of 2024.
What is TikTok?
This video sharing app served as a launchpad for internet stars like Shawn Mendes, Jake and Logan Paul, and David Dobrik but was shut down in 2017 due to financial trouble.
What is Vine?
A live, real-time stream of all friends' posts that is available to select customers.
What is a timeline?
Also called a DM and most recently called simply a "message," these Tweets are private between the sender and recipient. Tweets sent over SMS become DMs when they begin with "d username" to specify who the message is for.
What is direct message?
Google offered to buy what app for up to $4 million along with Facebook, but was declined.
Snapchat?
71 percent of the world’s largest brands have adopted this site, which now rivals the brand adoption of Google+ and Pinterest, making it the fastest growing social network worldwide. The report included brand hashtag monitoring, multi-account monitoring, competitive monitoring and a complete social media snapshot.
What is Instagram?
A social networking platform that was launched in 2011 by Google. It was designed to be a more private and secure social network than other platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter but was shut down in 2019 due to lower usage and user engagement.
What is Google+?
Google’s answer to the “Like” button on Facebook, this feature allows you to add your vote to search results.
What is the Google + function?
Name for users who you follow and who follow you.
What are mutuals?
The #1 reason people get blocked or hidden from news feeds on social media sites?
What is over-posting?