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>Facebook's network effect was overwhelmed twice, once by instagram and again by whatsapp This doesn't seem accurate, do you have evidence to back up this clai
by oarabbus_ 5y ago
>Facebook's network effect was overwhelmed twice, once by instagram and again by whatsapp
This doesn't seem accurate, do you have evidence to back up this claim? Instagram had 30 million users and no revenue upon acquisition. Facebook had over a billion, and billions in revenues.
- worthless-trash 5y agoI believe this is based on the writers perception, not reality. I can argue that my friends now use all use email, eclipsing facebook, whatsapp and instagram, better buy those stocks in SMTP. ;)
- ignoramous 5y agoPerception, yes: https://stratechery.com/2020/social-networking-2-0/ https://stratechery.com/2020/social-networking-2-0/
- ethbr0 5y agoGrowth, and especially growth in younger demographics, is probably the metric Facebook was looking at.
- oarabbus_ 5y agoRight, that's why they bought instagram. But that's a far cry from the claim OP made their "network effect was overwhelmed"
- ignoramous 5y agoI don't think one can break a scale-free network like that of Facebook by playing the same game as Facebook. One way to counter a scale-free network is to create adjacent scale-free networks that replaces its competition one part at a time. This is what, I believe, WhatsApp (with messaging) and Instagram (with images) were on the verge of doing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-free_network#Immunization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-free_network#Immunizatio...