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I agree, but I think that you and me and other HN users are a niche. Twitter serves that niche well (6 million users after 3 years of constant hype proves it i

• Brushfire 18y ago
  I think we are on the same page, but to be fair, twitter is just starting to ramp up growth wise. And facebook has an easier growth path -- college students. That said, I think twitter could see tremendous growth in 2-3 years -- leaving its niche as companies, groups, and close friends use it more regularly.
• catch23 18y ago
  Not necessarily. The core of twitter allows anyone to "follow" anyone else. Whereas for facebook, you need to first become a friend of that person before you start getting updates. People on twitter easily have thousands of followers even though most of those aren't "real" friends. You could probably do that with facebook, but it would defeat the purpose of having friends & family on there if 95% of your friends were random people on the internet that just wanted to follow your status updates.