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Top 10 Social WebsiteLinkedIn.comTwitter.comFacebook.comYouTube.comWikipedia.orgTechnoratimedia.comDigg.comUpcoming.orgAnswers.yahoo.comYelp.com

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LinkedIn LinkedIn is a social networking website for

people in professional occupations. Founded in December 2002 and launched on May 5, 2003 it is mainly used for professional networking. As of June 2013, LinkedIn reports more than 225 million acquired users in more than 200 countries and territories. The site is available in 20 languages..

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TwitterTwitter is an online social networking service and

microblogging service that enable its users to send and read text-based messages of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets".

Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and in July, the social networking site was launched. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 500 million registered users as of 2012, generating over 340 million tweets daily and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day.

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FacebookFacebook is an online social networking

service. Its name stems from the colloquial name for the book given to students at the start of the academic year by some American university administrations to help students get to know each other. Facebook was founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.

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YouTube

YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005 and owned by Google since late 2006, on which users can upload, view and share videos.

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Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a collaboratively edited, multilingual, the free Internet encyclopedia supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia's 30 million articles in 287 languages, including over 4.3 million in the English Wikipedia, are written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone having access to the site.

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TechnoratiTechnorati is an Internet search engine for

searching blogs. By June 2008, Technorati was indexing 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media. The name Technorati is a blend of the words technology and literati, which invokes the notion of technological intelligence or intellectualism.

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DiggDigg is a news aggregator with an editorially

driven front page, aiming to select stories specifically for the Internet audience such as science, trending political issues, and viral Internet issues. It was launched in its current form on July 31, 2012, with support for sharing content to other social platforms such as Twitter and Facebook.

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UpcomingUpcoming (formerly Upcoming.org) was a

social event calendar website that launched in 2003, founded by Andy Baio. On October 4, 2005, Upcoming.org was acquired by Yahoo!. In April 2013, Yahoo announced the retirement of Upcoming, Upcoming combined features of an event calendar and a social networking site.

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Answers. YahooYahoo! Answers is a website that allows users

to both submit questions to be answered and answer questions asked by other users.

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Yelp

Yelp, Inc. Is an American company that operates a local search website founded by Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel Simmons in 2004. The website was re-launched in February 2005 with a focus on user reviews. Between 2005 and 2010, Yelp received $130 million in funding, and became a publicly traded company in the US stock market in 2012.

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