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Is it really a whole percent the size? That seems large to me.

• jacquesm 18y ago
  Roughly, twitter about 0.3% of the internet at large google about 30%. Even if they're both off by 50% that still makes twitter an impressive achievement. On a side note, I find it incredible that yahoo still is as big as it is, I never expected them to hold out as long as they did at the top spot. I really wonder what the stickyness there is. Somewhere in mid december or so I think google overtook yahoo as the #1 site.
  • unalone 18y ago
    It's because people use Yahoo for a ton of stuff. I still use Yahoo Answers when I have no other place to ask a question. My roommate uses Yahoo sports. Some browsers still default to Yahoo. It's huge: its array of services make Google look minimal. 0.3% is pretty impressive, absolutely. It's still not the revolution people've been calling it, and I'd be willing to bet it never goes truly mainstream. I don't think it can while Facebook maintains its grip on college-age kids.
    • jacquesm 18y ago
      I see twitter as the 'facebook' of the linked-in and xing crowd, not sure if that makes sense that way to others though. The reason why is that it's the same people that seem to be sending out invites on all those networks, but somehow it is disjoint from facebook which I think pulled a lot of people in the myspace (formerly the same crowd that was on geocities) towards it as well as a whole slew of people that have just 'established' themselves on the web. It would be very interesting to see how much overlap there is between those sites.
      • unalone 18y ago
        Yeah, I'd be curious to see that too. The only problem with that is that Facebook's popular because it's a sort of all-in-one. If you don't care about your online presence, it does everything in one place. Twitter handles a much more limited subset of those things.