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03-21-2016, 08:22 PM
Facebook versus Twitter is the Batman versus Superman of social media
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For a brief moment, Mark Zuckerberg actually thought Twitter might overtake Facebook.
It was 2008-2009.*Twitter, which launched its 140 character revolution ten years ago this week,*was still enjoying the kind of skyrocketing user growth and fawning press coverage that startup founders pray to the Internet gods for.
"I looked at their [growth] rate and thought if this continues for 12 months or 18 months, then in a year they’re going to be bigger than us," Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder and CEO, told one industry publication (http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/exclusive-discussing-the-future-of-facebook-and-the-facebook-ecosystem-with-ceo-mark-zuckerberg/241867?red=if) in 2010 about his one-time fixation with Twitter.
He was right — but only to an extent. Hundreds of millions of people created Twitter accounts only to abandon them (http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/03/21/new-report-spotlights-twitters-retention-problem/). Twitter's user growth gradually petered out, capping at around 300 million last year. Facebook kept growing, topping the one billion mark, then passing 1.5 billion and still going. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/21/twitter-facebook-rivalry-decade/)
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For a brief moment, Mark Zuckerberg actually thought Twitter might overtake Facebook.
It was 2008-2009.*Twitter, which launched its 140 character revolution ten years ago this week,*was still enjoying the kind of skyrocketing user growth and fawning press coverage that startup founders pray to the Internet gods for.
"I looked at their [growth] rate and thought if this continues for 12 months or 18 months, then in a year they’re going to be bigger than us," Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder and CEO, told one industry publication (http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/exclusive-discussing-the-future-of-facebook-and-the-facebook-ecosystem-with-ceo-mark-zuckerberg/241867?red=if) in 2010 about his one-time fixation with Twitter.
He was right — but only to an extent. Hundreds of millions of people created Twitter accounts only to abandon them (http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/03/21/new-report-spotlights-twitters-retention-problem/). Twitter's user growth gradually petered out, capping at around 300 million last year. Facebook kept growing, topping the one billion mark, then passing 1.5 billion and still going. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/21/twitter-facebook-rivalry-decade/)
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