Tagged (website)

Tagged
Type of site
Social networking service
Available inEnglish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, French, German, Malay
OwnerThe Meet Group
Employees150 (October 2011)[1]
URLwww.tagged.com
RegistrationRequired
LaunchedOctober 2004; 19 years ago (2004-10)

Tagged is a social discovery website based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2004. It allows members to browse the profiles of any other members,[2] and share tags and virtual gifts. Tagged claims it has 300 million members as of 2014.[3] As of September 2011, Quantcast estimates Tagged monthly unique users at 5.9 million in the United States, and 18.6 million globally.[4] Michael Arrington wrote in April 2011 that Tagged is most notable for the ability to grow profitably during the era of Facebook.[5]

In 2009, Tagged was criticized for sending deceptive Email spam[6][7][8] and paid $1.4 million in legal settlements regarding those practices.[9] The company has since adopted privacy reforms and changed its invitation processes.[10][11]

Owned by Ifwe, Inc., it is an Inc. 500 company ranking #476 on the 2010 Inc. list of fastest-growing independent U.S. private companies[12] and #80 on Forbes' 2011 list of America's Most Promising Companies.[13]

On April 3, 2017, the company was acquired by The Meet Group.[14]

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  2. ^ "ourWorld Integrated Into Tagged.com". Virtual Worlds News. March 1, 2010. Retrieved 2010-06-14.
  3. ^ Forrest, Conner (19 June 2014). "How Tagged sidestepped Facebook and stayed alive". TechRepublic.
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  5. ^ Arrington, Michael (April 19, 2011). "Tagged Buys Popular Social/Instant Messaging Client Digsby". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2011-06-16.
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  9. ^ Wendy Davis (April 13, 2010). "Fined Again, Tagged Pays $650K To San Fran Authorities". MediaPost Publications. Retrieved 2011-04-10.
  10. ^ "Tagged.com Settles with N.Y., Texas over Privacy". San Francisco Chronicle. November 10, 2009. Retrieved 2009-12-05.
  11. ^ "Case Study: Battling a Media (and Legal) Firestorm". Inc. Retrieved 2013-06-14.
  12. ^ "Tagged". Inc. 2011. Retrieved 2011-04-10.
  13. ^ "America's Most Promising Companies". Forbes. 2011. Retrieved 2012-02-25.
  14. ^ "MeetMe Announces Closing of if(we) Acquisition and Rebrands to The Meet Group" (Press release). Business Wire. April 3, 2017.