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Reddit (/ ˈ r ɛ d ɪ t / ⓘ) is an American social news aggregation, content rating, and forum social network. Registered users (commonly referred to as "Redditors") submit content to the site such as links, text posts, images, and videos, which are then voted up or down ("upvoted" or "downvoted") by other members.
After Alien Blue became the most popular Reddit app on the iOS App Store, the iReddit app (the result of a collaboration with an outside contractor) [7] was essentially abandoned due to a lack of resources, [8] and Alien Blue was officially acquired by Reddit on October 15, 2014 [9] for an undisclosed sum [10] [11] and made Reddit's new official app for iOS. [12]
The news feed is the primary system through which users are exposed to content posted on the network. Using a secret method (initially known as EdgeRank), Facebook selects a handful of updates to actually show users every time they visit their feed, out of an average of 1500 updates they can potentially receive.
Steve Huffman, Reddit's CEO. On April 18, 2023, Reddit announced it would charge for its API service amid a potential initial public offering. [6] Speaking to The New York Times ' Mike Isaac, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said, "The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable, but we don't need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free".
Reddit closes "/r/reddit.com" and expands its number of default subreddits to 20. [30] 2012: January: Community: Reddit announces that it will start a 12-hour sitewide blackout protesting the Stop Online Piracy Act. [31] [32] 2012: March: Team: Yishan Wong, a former Facebook employee and PayPal Mafia member, becomes Reddit CEO. [33] [34] 2012 ...
Facebook posts can have an unlimited number of characters, with images and videos. Users can "friend" users, both sides must agree to being friends. Posts can be changed to be seen by everyone (public), friends, people in a certain group (group) or by selected friends (private). Users can join groups.
The PLATO system was launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation.It offered early forms of social media features with innovations such as Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowdsourced online newspaper, and blog ...
It originated from a comment by a user with the screen name 'Binod', who had added only the word 'Binod' as a comment. This was followed by a video by Slayy Point, mocking "Binod" and YouTube comment sections in general. People started spamming the word 'Binod' across social media, primarily in YouTube comments and stream chats. [458]