Comment from nc
Time March 17, 2009 at 9:35 am

Yes, at its current growth trend, Twitter will take a long time to catch up to sites like Facebook, but with changes that Facebook makes, Facebook may lose many of its users. Facebook has changed the layout in a huge way more than once in (not even) the last year. I sign into Twitter on an hourly basis whether that’s from my computer or phone. I only sign into Facebook if someone messages me. Facebook is a jumbled mess now.

Comment from Anand
Time March 17, 2009 at 9:40 am

Hi NC

While I concur with you on that part, a social network like Facebook still holds a stickiness value much higher than Twitter. Twitter’s strength has been its simplicity and focused feature. But that could also turn out to be its weakness later on since I do not find it sticky enough to hold eyeballs for a long period of time. Could be my personal biased view at work, but still..

Comment from Ram
Time March 18, 2009 at 3:18 am

just like Facebook took 37 years to grow as much as it has??? Way to crunch the numbers. Why is Facebook trying to become more like Twitter anyway?

Comment from Justin
Time April 14, 2009 at 9:30 pm

yeah, that 37 years number is based on nothing but bad number crunching that doesn’t really take into account how the real world works. But to Ram: I believe the answer is this: by becoming more like twitter (but not by actually changing how facebook fundamentally works but rather by making an already popular feature of it work like twitter) they think they can make up for facebook users lost by gaining twitter users who will say to themselves “twitter essentially does only a small part of what facebook does. facebook does everything that twitter does and more.” using facebook (consolidation) seems to be the rational choice. You kinda hit the nail on the head there, Anand, when you said how twitter doesn’t have the “eyeball-stick” factor.