Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams said the following about Facebook and Instagram.
“It’s a question of breadth versus
depth. Why is users the only
thing we talk about? The crazy
thing: Facebook has done an
amazing job of establishing that
as the metric for Wall Street. No
one ever talks about, ‘What is a
[monthly active user]?’ I believe
it’s the case that if you use
Facebook Connect—if you use an
app that you logged into with
Facebook Connect—you’re
considered a Facebook user
whether or not you ever
launched the Facebook app or
went to Facebook.com. So what
does that mean? It’s become so
abstract to be meaningless.
Something you did caused some
data in their servers to be
recorded for the month. So I
think we’re on the wrong path.
If you think about the impact
Twitter has on the world versus
Instagram, it’s pretty significant.
It’s at least apples to oranges.
Twitter is what we wanted it to
be. It’s this realtime information
network where everything in
the world that happens on
Twitter—important stuff breaks
on Twitter and world leaders
have conversations on Twitter.
If that’s happening,I frankly
don’t give a s**t if Instagram
has more people looking at
pretty pictures.”
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