I have gathered some nice informations about some common Social apps we use everyday, i believe many will learn something from this,





Let's start with



1. Whatsapp Messenger

WhatsApp Inc., was founded in 2009 by Brian Acton and Jan Koum , both former employees of Yahoo!


As of February 2016, WhatsApp had a
user base of one billion, making it the
most popular messaging application


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhatsApp




Additional information:

WhatsApp, was incorporated in 2009 by Brian Acton and Jan Koum, both former employees of Yahoo! . After Koum and Acton left Yahoo! in September 2007, the
duo traveled to South America as a break from work.

At one point they applied for jobs at Facebook but were rejected. For the rest of the following years Koum
relied on his $400,000 savings from
Yahoo!. In January 2009, after purchasing
an iPhone and realizing that the App Store would soon create an industry of apps,
Koum started visiting his friend Alex
Fishman in West San Jose where the three would discuss ".... having statuses next to
individual names of the people", but this
was not possible without an iPhone
developer. Fishman found a Russian
developer on RentACoder.com, Igor
Solomennikov, and introduced him to Koum.








https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhatsApp






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2. Facebook


Facebook is a social networking service launched on February 4, 2004. It was
founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University student Eduardo Saverin


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook


Additional Information:

Mark Zuckerberg, 23, founded Facebook
while studying psychology at Harvard University . A keen computer programmer, Mr Zuckerberg had already developed a
number of social-networking websites for
fellow students, including Coursematch,
which allowed users to view people taking
their degree, and Facemash, where you
could rate people's attractiveness. In February 2004 Mr Zuckerberg launched
"The facebook", as it was originally known;
the name taken from the sheets of paper
distributed to freshmen, profiling students
and staff. Within 24 hours, 1,200 Harvard
students had signed up, and after one month, over half of the undergraduate population
had a profile. The network was promptly extended to
other Boston universities, the Ivy League
and eventually all US universities. It became Facebook.com in August 2005 after the address was purchased for $200,000. US high
schools could sign up from September 2005,
then it began to spread worldwide, reaching
UK universities the following month. As of September 2006, the network was
extended beyond educational institutions to
anyone with a registered email address.

3. Twitter


Founded March 21, 2006; 11 years ago,
Twitter came about out as a result of both a
perceived need and timing. Smart phones
were relatively new when Twitter was first
conceived of by inventor Jack Dorsey, who
wanted to use his cellphone to send text
messages to a service and have the message distributed to all his friends. At the
time, most of Dorsey's friend's didn't have
text-enabled cellphones and spent a lot of
time on their home computers. Twitter was
born of a need to enable text messaging to
have a cross platform capacity, work on phone, computers, and other devices.



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter






Jack Dorsey brought his new ideas to Noah
Glass and convinced Glass of its do-ability. In
February 2006, Glass and Dorsey (along with
developer Florian Weber) presented the
project to the company. The project, initially
called Twttr (named by Noah Glass), was "a system where you could send a text to one
number and it would be broadcasted out to
all your desired contacts".




https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

4. Instagram

Instagram is a mobile, desktop, and Internet-based photo-sharing application and service that allows users to share
pictures and videos either publicly or
privately. It was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010 as a free mobile app exclusively for the iOS operating system. A version for Android devices was released two years later, in April 2012, followed by
a feature-limited website interface in November 2012, and apps for Windows 10 Mobile and Windows 10 in April 2016 and October 2016 respectively.



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram

5. 2go


2go is a free mobile social networking application developed by 2go Interactive
(Pty) Ltd in Cape Town, South Africa. 2go supports over 1,500 different devices,
including feature phones, in addition to
Android, BlackBerry OS and BlackBerry 10 smartphones. 2go has over 50 million registered users across Africa with 13
million active users based within Nigeria.



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2go



2go is currently based in Cape Town, South Africa, but originated in Johannesburg. 2go was created in 2007 by a couple of University of Witwatersrand students as a communication tool. 2go started as a mobile website and was used to upload
and share the students' timetables and lectures with each other. In 2008, two of the founders left, leaving Alan Wolff and Ashley Peter behind. Under their management, 2go moved away from the
students-only model by targeting developing markets in Africa. 2go continued to grow, despite a lack of
external investment, due to its focus on feature phones, which most African mobile markets consist out of. Over 7 billion messages are sent across the service each
month, most of which within paid-for chat
rooms using the platform's currency, GoCredits. In June 2013, 2go for Android was released on the Google Play Store and has, as of December 2014, reached over 2 million monthly active users on Android. The Android version brought forth many design
changes and additions that other platforms received in the v3.5 release. 2go for BlackBerry 10 was released in April 2014
The latest release was version 3.8.

6. Snapchat

Founded, 2011,


Snapchat is an image messaging and multimedia
mobile application created by Evan Spiegel , Bobby
Murphy , and Reggie Brown, former students at
Stanford University , and developed by Snap Inc. ,
originally Snapchat Inc.



One of the principal concepts of
Snapchat is that pictures and messages are only
available for a short time before they become inaccessible.
The prototype for Snapchat was started by Brown and
Spiegel as a project for one of Spiegel's classes at Stanford,
where Spiegel was a product design major. Beginning as
"Picaboo", the idea was to create a selfie app (application)
which allowed users to share images that were explicitly
short-lived and self-deleting. The temporary nature of the
pictures would therefore encourage frivolity and
emphasize a more natural flow of interaction.



When, in April 2011, Spiegel floated the product idea in front of
his class as a final project, the classmates focused on the
impermanent aspect of the potential product, and
balked at the thought of temporary photos. Murphy
was eventually brought into the project to write the
source code for the application, and Picaboo first
launched as an iOS -only app in July 2011. The
application was relaunched in September under the
name Snapchat





https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapchat

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7. Viber

Founded : December, 2010,


Viber is a free, cross-platform instant messaging and
voice over IP (VoIP) application that was first developed
and popularized by the Israeli company Viber Media
that was bought by the Japanese multinational
company Rakuten . In addition to instant messaging,
users can exchange images, video and audio media
messages by sending files to each other. As of December
2016, Viber had 800 million registered users.




https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viber

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7. Viber Founded : December, 2010,

Viber is a free, cross-platform instant messaging and voice over IP (VoIP) application that was first developed and popularized by the Israeli company Viber Media that was bought by the Japanese multinational company Rakuten . In addition to instant messaging, users can exchange images, video and audio media messages by sending files to each other. As of December 2016, Viber had 800 million registered users.



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viber

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