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On social networking sites, a user creates his own profile by uploading information about himself. On a
social network, it may be possible that the two people in the network may not know each other personally,
they may know each other only on the basis of their profile which has been uploaded by them.
X (Twitter)
X (Twitter) is an online news and social networking platform where people post and interact
in the form of short messages called ‘tweets’. Tweets were originally restricted to 140
characters, but later, this limit was doubled to 280 except in a few languages. Tweeting is
posting short messages for anyone who follows you on Twitter, with the hope that your
messages are useful and interesting to some of your followers. Some people use X (Twitter) to discover and
follow the tweets of celebrities, companies, etc.
X (Twitter) was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams and launched
in July of that year. The head-quarter of X (Twitter) is in San Francisco, California.
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking platform that makes it quite easy for us to connect online with
family and friends. Facebook allows to share photos, text messages, videos, status & stories
posts and feelings online.
Facebook was created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg while he was enrolled at Harvard University.
Originally, he designed it for college students. Today, Facebook is the world’s largest social network, with
more than 1 billion users worldwide.
Key Features of Facebook
Here are a few features that make Facebook so popular:
Facebook allows us to maintain a friends list.
Facebook enables us to choose privacy settings to tailor who can see the contents of our profile.
Facebook allows us to maintain photo albums that can be shared with friends.
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