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Heh. Bill Gates said something similar about 640k of RAM once. There's certainly enough users to fill up that capacity. Why wouldn't it be possible?

by abossy 17y ago

vaksel 17y ago
Twitter is useless for anyone who isn't a marketer/promoter. Regular people would rather use facebook. Facebook can reach 1 billion users, twitter cannot.
- catch23 17y ago
  so most of twitter's 20m users are marketers & promoters? I don't consider myself a marketer and yet I'm on twitter. I'm on there because my friends are on there.
  - mahmud 17y ago
    If you have a job, career or business, you ARE in marketing. Products and "services" include your own self and skills.
tedunangst 17y ago
What Bill Gates said was "I have a processor with a 20-bit physical address space and I have to divide it into a portion for software and a portion for hardware devices like video ROM. 640k seems like a reasonable place to make that division."
- jganetsk 17y ago
  Really? Crap. My high school yearbook quote was "The computer will never need more than 640kb. -Bill Gates". Oops. All that being made fun of for nothing.
  - smokinn 17y ago
    The most common quote I see is: "640k should be enough for anybody. - Bill Gates" and it bugs me every time. Thanks to the grandparent for setting the record straight.
- cellis 17y ago
  Citation needed. Google picked you up nearly instantaneously though.
ryanwaggoner 17y ago
There's barely 1 billion people online worldwide. Granted, there are more than that who have mobile phones and could use Twitter via SMS, and the number of people online by 2014 will probably be much higher (2 billion?), but they don't want 1 billion user accounts in their database, they want 1 billion active users who interact with Twitter at least once a week. Supposedly something like 80% of people who sign up for Twitter never return, so they'll need 5 billion signups to get 1 billion active users. Does Google even have 1 billion users who interact with them at least once a week?

Heh. Bill Gates said something similar about 640k of RAM once. There's certainly enough users to fill up that capacity. Why wouldn't it be possible?

by abossy 17y ago

Heh. Bill Gates said something similar about 640k of RAM once. There's certainly enough users to fill up that capacity. Why wouldn't it be possible?

vaksel 17y ago

Twitter is useless for anyone who isn't a marketer/promoter. Regular people would rather use facebook. Facebook can reach 1 billion users, twitter cannot.

catch23 17y ago
so most of twitter's 20m users are marketers & promoters? I don't consider myself a marketer and yet I'm on twitter. I'm on there because my friends are on there.
- mahmud 17y ago
  If you have a job, career or business, you ARE in marketing. Products and "services" include your own self and skills.

tedunangst 17y ago

What Bill Gates said was "I have a processor with a 20-bit physical address space and I have to divide it into a portion for software and a portion for hardware devices like video ROM. 640k seems like a reasonable place to make that division."

jganetsk 17y ago
Really? Crap. My high school yearbook quote was "The computer will never need more than 640kb. -Bill Gates". Oops. All that being made fun of for nothing.
- smokinn 17y ago
  The most common quote I see is: "640k should be enough for anybody. - Bill Gates" and it bugs me every time. Thanks to the grandparent for setting the record straight.
cellis 17y ago
Citation needed. Google picked you up nearly instantaneously though.

ryanwaggoner 17y ago

There's barely 1 billion people online worldwide. Granted, there are more than that who have mobile phones and could use Twitter via SMS, and the number of people online by 2014 will probably be much higher (2 billion?), but they don't want 1 billion user accounts in their database, they want 1 billion active users who interact with Twitter at least once a week. Supposedly something like 80% of people who sign up for Twitter never return, so they'll need 5 billion signups to get 1 billion active users. Does Google even have 1 billion users who interact with them at least once a week?