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2011 was a giant year for social media. Pandora, Groupon, and LinkedIn went public, Google+ launched, Twitter reached 100 million active users and was ![icons facebook twitter linkedin googleplus 150x150 What Mattered In 2011 For Social Media [Infographic]](http://www.pamorama.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/icons-facebook-twitter-linkedin-googleplus.png "icons-facebook-twitter-linkedin-googleplus"){kind=icon}
valued at $8 billion, and Facebook rolled out some big changes, including its major Timeline redesign.
This infographic from Flowtown takes a look at the major social media events in 2011.
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