TUENTI (spanish social net)

Tuenti network is by invitation. The site is focused on the Spanish population. Allowing users to create their own profile upload photos and videos and connect with friends. Tuenti has many other possibilities such as creating events, Tuenti Sites and Pages, tag friends in photos, comment statements, create your own personal space, chat in their own chat and Tuenti Games, which are games within the network. It has been recently added video chat functionality with which you can chat with friends via chat network.
It was created in 2006 by Zaryn Dentzel, an American student currently based in Madrid (Spain). Spain Dentzel met through an exchange that led to Badajoz and years later, following this experience, was born Tuenti.

At first it was directed to university students. Later, in view of its success, allowed entry to more users, but only if you have invitations. Tuenti currently has 9.2 million active users in Spain (2010), the majority of them students between 14 and 24.
To find programmers, he made a selection on the net. From there it was a casting and was elected to the current team, which consists of people from around the world (Americans, Polish, English and Spanish).
According Zaryn Dentzel, the name “Tuenti” arose from the need to find one that would include “tu”(you) and “ti” (to you). to name the members of the marketing department shuffled many names at the end chose the short version because Tuenti looks like “TU idenTIdad” (your identity) and because it sounded good, apart from making reference to the range (twenty-people) that was targeted.
The current owner is Tuenti Telefónica, which on August 4, 2010 was made with 85% of it by an estimated 70 million euros. Telefónica intends to medium term to expand Tuenti other countries (mostly in Latin America and Europe).

JAVIER MANSO CARREIRA.