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Bebo chief's plan to take on Facebook and Twitter

• samizdis 6y ago
  [interviewer}: >In its heyday, Bebo was the UK's biggest social network. Are you aiming for that kind of scale again? [Michael Birch]: This started as a fun lockdown project to give me something to do. It certainly didn't start out as can it become as big as we used to be. But you know, in the back of my mind is that a possibility? Of course it is. And it's a fun thing to contemplate. Do I realistically think that's going to happen? No, I don't. But it is more fun trying a thing sometimes than necessarily achieving it. Well, good luck to him. Some of his focus - real-time chat (which WhatsApp users do quite a bit) rather than newsfeeds, and live commenting on media - might well attract those unhappy with FB and Twitter.