1) The document provides trivia questions about Twitter and other social media platforms, their founders, popular users, and key events in their history. 2) Questions cover topics like the most popular Twitter user, the person who founded Twitter, the date Twitter launched, and other founding details about platforms like Facebook and MySpace. 3) Additional questions test knowledge of hashtags, retweets, influencers and other social media terminology as well as popular sites for sharing content and finding analytics.

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2. According to the site “WeFollow” who is the second most popular Tweeter?

3. Name this person and the social media site he founded:

4. This muckraking blogger broke the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

5. What athlete has the highest number of followers on Twitter?

6. Who authored the first Tweet from space?

7. On what date did Twitter launch?

8. How much did Rupert Murdoch pay when he purchased MySpace in 1995?

9. Facebook was founded by four students attending what university?

10. What was the first social network site and what year did it launch?

11. Who is this person and what social network did he help to found?

12. Complete this phrase: Twitter is the _______ ______ of the Internet

13. What is it called when a person uses social network programs to share everything or nearly everything they do?

14. In 2007 social networking overtook what to become the most popular online activity?

15. In class on Thursday we talked about 5 different types of tweets. Name them.

16. What was the name of the campaign launched by Current, a San Francisco-based media company, to call attention to their use of Twitter during the 2008 presidential debate?

17. What symbol do you use to start a new topic on Twitter?

18. Name three sites that can be used to find Twitter usage statistics

19. Name the Web site that allows users to post and download PowerPoint presentations.

20. Name two popular sites that can be used to shorten URLs

21. What term is used to describe a picture that is used to represent you on several social networking sites?

22. What is it called when a group of Twitter users congregate off-line?

23. According to the AP Stylebook, which of the following should not be capitalized? -twitter -tweet -twitterer -tweeps

24. What company allows their Facebook fans to vote on how the organization allocates their charitable giving funds?

25. Before being called “Twitter,” the popular microblogging site was called what?

26. What Ning based social network caters to members of the Republican Tea Party Movement?