IDEAS THAT INSPIRED FAMOUS SOCIAL MEDIA APPS

FARHAN HUSSAIN

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“Social Media is an online platform to help promote yourself to a wider audience”

We all know how Facebook started, right? ( we all watched the movie The Social Network)

But the ideas behind some of the most successful apps we all use are still unknown.

Daily Active Users 75M

Worth $35 Billion

#2 Most Popular social app after Instagram & Facebook

Launched: October 2010

Active Users Monthly: 300M

13% Internet Users Use it

www.expandedramblings.com

IDEA THAT INSPIRED INSTAGRAM

Instagram is a fun and quirky way to share your life with friends through a series of pictures. Snap a photo with your mobile phone, then choose a filter to transform the image into a memory to keep around forever.

Kevyn Systrom and Mike Krieger Originally started a check-in app called Burbn

They later pivoted to the photo app because there was no single dedicated to giving your mobile photos a place to live and to be seen.

www.expandedramblings.com

Launched: September 2011

Active Users Monthly: 100M

70% Women Users

400M Snaps Per Day

Worth $860 Million

#3 Most Popular social app after Instagram & Facebook

www.expandedramblings.com

IDEA THAT INSPIRED SNAPCHAT

Snapchat is a text-, photo- and video-messaging app that you use to send messages that will disappear one to ten seconds after your friend receives them. You determine how long the recipient(s) can view the message.

Snapchat was started by Evan Spiegel & Bob Murphy as a class project at Stanford University.

The idea was generated from a friend of Spielberg’s who was bummed about a photo he regretted sending

It was the second most downloaded app for iOS Users after Facebook messenger.

Launched: September 2008

Over 50M Registered Users

Over 1M files saved every 3 Mins

www.expandedramblings.com

500 files saved daily

Worth $1.2B

Customers in 175 countries

IDEA THAT INSPIRED DROPBOX

Dropbox makes all your files available to you from any computer or phone.

Dropbox offers 2GB of space for free, you can upgrade to a Pro account with up to 100GB.

Drew Houston conceived the idea after repeatedly forgetting his USB flash drive while he was a student at MIT.

Launched: 2009

Over 700M users

70% use it daily

On Average 1M new Registration daily

Worth $19 Billion

#2 Most popular Social networking app after

facebook

www.expandedramblings.com

IDEA THAT INSPIRED WHATSAPP

Whatsapp messenger is a cross-platform mobile messaging app which allows you to exchange messages/pictures/videos/audio without having to pay for SMS via internet.

Jan Koum & Brian Acton initially developed whatsapp to broadcast your status when people can’t get hold of you, Later they added the messaging function which attracted over million customers.

Both the founders use to work together at YAHOO, both applied for FACEBOOK and got rejected.

Facebook acquired whatsapp in 2014 for $19 Billion.

www.expandedramblings.com

Launched: 14 Feb 2005

Over 1 Bllion users

Over 1 Trillion views in 2011

4 Billion views per day

Worth Over $40 Billion

#4 Most popular app & #3 most downloaded app in

2014

www.expandedramblings.com

IDEA THAT INSPIRED YOUTUBE

YouTube is a website designed for sharing video. Millions of users around the world have created accounts on the site that allow them to upload videos that anyone can watch, and It is free.

YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal.

Founders developed the idea after they had experienced difficulty in sharing videos that has been shot at a dinner party

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SO WHATS STOPPING YOU? THAT’S RIGHT, NOTHING.