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The reason Facebook is successful is not because of these features per se, any web dev could implement photos, events, user profile etc. The strength of Faceboo

The reason Facebook is successful is not because of these features per se, any web dev could implement photos, events, user profile etc. The strength of Facebook is it's user base and the network effect. Everybody's on Facebook because everybody's on Facebook. Now of course, Mark was the first to implement these features well, so that's why he won and by features I mean the stream and photos (events and apps arrived later when facebook had already won).

habitue 13y ago
The parent was talking about why it got big. Your comment essentially says: "No it wasn't all of those things, it was 'stream and photos' "
- Avshalom 13y ago
  No the parent can't be talking about why it "got big" because most of those features didn't really exist until it was big.
wslh 13y ago
It is more truth if it's applied to Twitter. The first versions could be fully implemented in a hackathon and with much less scalability issues.
- wslh 13y ago
  Wow! A downvote. A sensible person...