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Huh? Assuming only talking about USA, AOL had more than 30 million subscribers. And that's not counting their family members/guests. Twitter claims to have 4
by axaxs 6y ago
Huh? Assuming only talking about USA, AOL had more than 30 million subscribers. And that's not counting their family members/guests. Twitter claims to have 40 million active US members, a claim I doubt heavily. They aren't far off.
- cryptoz 6y ago30 million subscribers who read the message boards? And they all took each post as seriously as they do a tweet today? I doubt it. You're also cherry picking from my comment and ignoring the parts about how amplification is different today than then, outside of the numbers scale. Also, I'm not comparing to just the USA twitter users either! It's a global platform. That matters. Retweets are not region-locked!
- axaxs 6y agoNot just message boards, live chat! Thousands and thousands of chat rooms, and everyone on IM, and everyone FWDing inappropriate emails around. I'm not sure how old you are or if you had AOL, but it was by far the most social internet experience I'd ever had! Global users, of course, Twitter trumps it in count, no doubt. I only assumed US users because the post was about US politics.
- JimiofEden 6y agoNot all AOL subscribers participated in these boards/posting though. In addition, you have social media boosting other social medias, Facebook, Reddit, this place, each with their own individual brand of shenanigans. You didn't have that way back when (mostly because the alternatives were just as sparse)