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  https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS2Wb7G67EcR44qT3KQLlLzI1Fna_L2lPXfTI1sx8_z2w&s  As stated by Wikipedia, LinkedIn is a business and employment-focused social media platform that works through websites and mobile apps. It was launched on May 5, 2003 by Reid Hoffman and Eric Ly . Since December 2016, LinkedIn has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft . The platform is primarily used for professional networking and career development, and allows jobseekers to post their CVs and employers to post jobs. From 2015, most of the company's revenue came from selling access to information about its members to recruiters and sales professionals. LinkedIn has more than 1 billion registered members from over 200 countries and territories.   LinkedIn allows members (both workers and employers) to create profiles and connect with each other in an online social network which may represent real-world professional relationships. Members can in...

  https://c.ndtvimg.com/2023-10/fffl2gj8_elon-musk-x_625x300_11_October_23.jpg  According to Wikipedia, Twitter, Inc. was an American social media company based in San Francisco , California , which operated and was named for its flagship social media network prior to its rebrand as X. In addition to Twitter, the company previously operated the Vine short video app and Periscope live streaming service. In April 2023, Twitter merged with X Holdings  and ceased to be an independent company, becoming a part of X Corp. Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey , Noah Glass , Biz Stone , and Evan Williams in March 2006 and was launched that July. By 2012, more than 100 million users tweeted 340 million tweets a day.  The company went public in November 2013. By 2019, Twitter had more than 330 million monthly active users. Musk, E., & Dorsey, J. (n.d.). Twitter, Inc. Wikipedia. Retrieved April 2, 2024, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter,_Inc ....

   https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2023/03/15/gettyimages-1470268269-bcb3ec2433d093a15dd36e4b3f5b3468fb34f9e4.jpg  According to Wikipedia, ByteDance created TikTok as a global version of Douyin. TikTok was launched in the international market in September 2017. On 9 November 2017, ByteDance spent nearly $1 billion to purchase Musical.ly, a startup headquartered in Shanghai with an overseas office in Santa Monica, California. Musical.ly was a social media video platform that allowed users to create short lip-sync and comedy videos, initially released in August 2014. TikTok merged with Musical.ly on 2 August 2018 with existing accounts and data consolidated into one app, keeping the title TikTok.  TikTok. (n.d.). Wikipedia. Retrieved April 1, 2024, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok Click this link to learn more about the history of TikTok: https://youtu.be/y7AAp-3xJrA   Was this my first time using the platform?   This was definitely not the first ...