Evan Williams, Twitter's co-founder, has said this week that he expects the microblogging site to hit 1 billion users, although he would not give a time frame.
Earlier in the month, Williams stepped down as CEO.
Twitter currently has just over 165 million members, but the service has been seeing exponential growth since 2008.
Zeus Kerravala of Yankee Group Research says the goal ... [ read the full article ]
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Quote:Twitter allows you to reach out to thousands of people at once
Allows, or FORCES? Why does everyone need to know your every private communique? No, I think the younger generation will begin to understand the value of privacy sooner than some believe.
"Kerravala also said e-mail was becoming an "old people's" tool, while Twitter was the modern equivalent."
No, email is the modern equivalent of email...twitter has no privacy, but it also does not notify your intended audience when you have something important to say, rather than just an update that you are now watching episode 412 of the simpsons...when you tweeted that you were watching episode 411 20 minutes before.
If they want to get 1 billion users (about 1/7 of everyone on earth), they will have to offer something more...maybe it would help if they offered email.
