🌟 Social Media Trivia Questions & Answers
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30 Social Media trivia questions
Q1. Which future billionaire launched the site that became Facebook from his Harvard dorm room in 2004?
Answer: Mark Zuckerberg
💡 Zuckerberg built the site in Kirkland House and it hit 1,200 Harvard users within a month.
Q2. Which tech billionaire bought Twitter in 2022 for a reported $44 billion?
Answer: Elon Musk
💡 The deal closed that October after months of back-and-forth negotiation.
Q3. In what year did Meta launch its Twitter rival, Threads?
Answer: 2023
💡 Threads required a linked Instagram account, tying it straight into Meta's ecosystem.
Q4. In what year did Facebook hold its record-setting, biggest-ever tech IPO?
Answer: 2012
💡 Trading was delayed at the open by a Nasdaq technical glitch that jammed orders.
Q5. In what year did LinkedIn become the first big social network to go public?
Answer: 2011
💡 LinkedIn's shares more than doubled on day one, closing near $94.
Q6. Before the world knew TikTok, ByteDance launched its Chinese sister app in 2016 under what name?
Answer: Douyin
💡 TikTok itself launched internationally the following year, in September 2017.
Q7. Before it was shortened, what was Facebook's original full name when it launched in February 2004?
Answer: Thefacebook
💡 It dropped the article and became simply 'Facebook' in 2005.
Q8. Kevin Systrom teamed up with which co-founder to build Instagram in San Francisco back in 2010?
Answer: Mike Krieger
💡 The app racked up 25,000 downloads on its very first day.
Q9. Roughly how much did Facebook pay to acquire Instagram back in April 2012?
Answer: $1 billion
💡 Instagram had just 13 employees and 30 million users at the time of the deal.
Q10. Which entrepreneur sent the very first message on Twitter back in March 2006?
Answer: Jack Dorsey
💡 That first message simply read: "just setting up my twttr."
Q11. In August 2018, TikTok fully merged with which lip-syncing app popular with US teens?
Answer: Musical.ly
💡 The merger folded Musical.ly's accounts and users straight into the TikTok app.
Q12. What was Snapchat's original app name when it launched on iOS in July 2011?
Answer: Picaboo
💡 It relaunched under the Snapchat name just a couple of months later, in September 2011.
Q13. Three former employees of which company co-founded YouTube in February 2005?
Answer: PayPal
💡 Co-founders Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim had all worked together at PayPal.
Q14. What was the title of the very first video ever uploaded to YouTube in April 2005?
Answer: Me at the zoo
💡 It's a 19-second clip of co-founder Jawed Karim in front of elephants at the San Diego Zoo.
Q15. Roughly how much did Google pay to acquire YouTube in late 2006?
Answer: $1.65 billion
💡 It's still considered one of the best tech acquisitions ever made.
Q16. Which social platform did Twitter buy in 2012, before its six-second looping videos launched?
Answer: Vine
💡 Vine officially launched to the public in January 2013 and quickly became a top video app.
Q17. Which Reddit co-founder returned to run the site as CEO years later?
Answer: Steve Huffman
💡 Huffman and co-founder Alexis Ohanian built Reddit through Y Combinator's first-ever class.
Q18. BeReal, the daily unfiltered photo app, launched in 2020 in which country?
Answer: France
💡 Co-founders Alexis Barreyat and Kévin Perreau built it as a small Paris startup.
Q19. Whose 2009 lawsuit over a fake account pushed Twitter to add verification?
Answer: Tony La Russa
💡 The fake @TonyLaRussa account joked darkly about two Cardinals pitchers' deaths.
Q20. Before pivoting to photos, what whiskey-inspired name did the Instagram app first launch under?
Answer: Burbn
💡 The name nodded to Kevin Systrom's love of bourbon before the app narrowed to pure photo-sharing.
Q21. Inspired by Flickr, what vowel-free code name did Twitter's team first use before buying the domain?
Answer: Twttr
💡 The full 'Twitter' name and domain came shortly after.
Q22. What nickname did MySpace co-founder Tom Anderson earn as every new user's automatic first friend?
Answer: Myspace Tom
💡 By 2006 his friend count had reached 100 million, making him the most-friended person online at the time.
Q23. LinkedIn launched in May 2003 out of which co-founder's living room, doubling as its first office?
Answer: Reid Hoffman
💡 Microsoft later bought LinkedIn in 2016 for about $26.2 billion.
Q24. Which illustrator's stock image became Twitter's famous 'Fail Whale'?
Answer: Yiying Lu
💡 Lu first drew the whale for a friend's birthday card — it started out as an elephant.
Q25. Which 20-year-old founded the blogging site Tumblr back in February 2007?
Answer: David Karp
💡 Tumblr signed up 75,000 users within its very first two weeks online.
Q26. Which magazine publisher bought the year-old Reddit back in October 2006?
Answer: Condé Nast
💡 Reddit's founders had launched it through Y Combinator's very first startup batch.
Q27. Facebook's 2006 News Feed launch sparked mass protests over fears about what?
Answer: Privacy
💡 Nearly a million users joined anti-News-Feed groups, yet Facebook kept the feature.
Q28. In what year did Snapchat launch the 'Stories' format Instagram later copied?
Answer: 2013
💡 Snapchat Stories vanished after 24 hours, a format Instagram cloned in August 2016.
Q29. YouTube's web domain was registered on which romantic date back in 2005?
Answer: Valentine's Day
💡 The site didn't actually launch to the public until December 2005.
Q30. Which co-founder joined Ben Silbermann to build Pinterest back in 2010?
Answer: Evan Sharp
💡 The Pinterest team built its very first version out of a small New York City apartment.
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