Another year has flown by and Fanpop turns two years old on August 1, 2008! We launched the public beta site two years ago today and it’s been a wild ride. The site looks so different now than it did when we launched it. This year we spent a lot of time refining and optimizing the site so it could handle the millions of users that hit it every month. Tons of new faces started POPping up across the site as well as POPular new fan clubs like Twilight which came out of nowhere to become one of our most active fandoms.

We launched some really hot new features this past year like Fanpop Chat and the Pop Quiz which has become a huge hit with the users! Not to mention those really cool virtual prizes you guys seem to be collecting more of all the time! We also rolled out the new and improved My Updates which has given Fanpoppers a really powerful way to manage their experience and the fire hose of new content coming from all their spots each day.

We saw the community really come together like never before to pull of some amazing events like the Fanpoppies (congrats to all the winners!) and Fanpop’s Got Talent (Don’t worry papa has not kidnapped me…yet. The team has been overwhelmed by the community of Fanpoppers support over the past two years even during the tough times (images anyone?). But without all of you, we don’t know where this site would be. We wouldn’t have hundreds of mind-blowing movie quiz questions from chel1395 and we wouldn’t be laughing ourselves off our seats from watching amazondebs and cinders video outtakes either. You guys make us smile all the time with your funny comments and encouraging messages to us.

So join the Fanpop Four (as we’ve been dubbed so appropriately) in eating our virtual birthday cake and here’s to another fantastic year of Fanpoppery!

posted by dave on Friday, August 1st, 2008.