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Flickr

American image and video hosting website

Softwareimage hosting service online video platform online communityQ103204

Also known as flickr

Developer: SmugMug(since 2018)
, Ludicorp(2004–2005)
, Yahoo Inc.(2005–2018)
Founded: February 10, 2004
Website: flickr.com

Overview

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Flickr is an image and video hosting service, as well as an online community, founded in Canada and headquartered in the United States. It was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and was for a time a common way for amateur and professional photographers to host high-resolution photos. Flickr was owned by Yahoo! from 2005 and has been owned by SmugMug since 2018.

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Depends on software: Express.js
Main Wikidata property: Flickr user ID
Flickr photo ID
Alexa rank: 421(August 20, 2019)
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Founded by: Stewart Butterfield
Caterina Fake
Headquarters: San Francisco
Search formatter URL: https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=$1 language: English
Language: English
Chinese
Spanish
French
Korean
Italian
Portuguese
Vietnamese
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ACM Classification Code (2012): 10011476
Social media followers: 1,100,498(February 5, 2023) x (twitter) numeric user id: 21237045
1,117,453(March 2, 2022) x (twitter) numeric user id: 21237045
1,149,798(January 3, 2021) x (twitter) numeric user id: 21237045
1,174,501(April 25, 2020) x (twitter) numeric user id: 21237045
Distributor: Google Play platforms: Android · distribution format: mobile app
App Store platforms: iOS · distribution format: mobile app
Subclass of: file available on the internet
Different from: Flickr Foundation
Distribution format: digital download
Platforms: Android
iOS
Microsoft Windows
Input device: touchscreen

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AIDB. (2026). Flickr (Q103204). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/flickr-Q103204