Doug Haslam
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Uttercast: So Facebook is Mainstream. Twitter?
Twitter is the stupid application that won’t go away. There are lots of signs that it is going mainstream- especially a constant, growing flow of press mentions (I felt a corner was turned when Twitter made the Sunday New York Times 3 times in one day).
Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb says no way, Facebook is mainstream: http://snurl.com/98vow. Marshall says it’ll take 36 years for Twitter to catch up to Facebook in numbers.
I agree. Not because numbers matter, but because of this: in the last few months alone, my high school and college classmates, my neighbors, even my brothers are on Facebook. Facebook comes up at every gathering.
Twitter is still my hub, but even that goes through Facebook to reach everyone. Yup, Facebook is mainstream.
What the heck does "mainstream" mean anyway?
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It means that non-techy people use it or have heard of it. If you ask your mom has she heard of Facebook and she says yes…it is mainstream. Twitter has brought news to the world before your beloved newspapers were able to which says something…
Gebadia, that syncs with my definition of general mainstream– but are you saying Twitter is mainstream because of the reason you presented?
Ya i accept that facebook is mainstream rather than twitter because i can prove that the number of users for facebook increases from day to day.