Twitter… the next Facebook?
Gary Vaynerchuk posted an interesting video blog raising the question of whether Twitter has the potential to become even bigger than Facebook. It’s definitely an interesting opinion that I’d recommend watching so I don’t want to paraphrase too much, but his main point is that with Twitter’s simplicity and update speed (nearly instantaneous compared to Facebook’s 15-minute News-Feed update), it has the power to potentially become the social tool of choice for being socially connected to the global social scene at any moment.
That Twitter is gaining massive hype lately is no lie - SXSW confirmed that it has become mainstream for the tech geeks. However, I’d argue Gary’s main point solely on the fact that the mass majority of Facebook users are not part of the uber-tech geek crowd that would leverage Twitter’s instantaeous connections and social dynamics. In this day and age, most users are content to logon to Facebook, check their messages, browse their friends’ profiles, view some pictures, and possibly check out some applications. It remains to be seen whether the mainstream Facebook user will see value in an app like Twitter. But as history has shown, the social web is evolving at light speed, so it will be interesting to see how the mainstream evolves with new social media applications.
