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Growth, and especially growth in younger demographics, is probably the metric Facebook was looking at.
by ethbr0 5y ago
Growth, 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...