Twitter users are abnormal, according to Twitter co-founder and CEO Evan Williams. Was he being flattering or simply slapping Twitter users in the face? Find out after the break.
Twitter co-founder Evan Williams was interviewed on US chat show Charlie Rose last week, where he predicted that logging on to Twitter will be something “normal people do” in five years. At the moment it seems Twitter’s far from the norm, and Williams knows it.
Williams compared Twitter, the micro blogging service, to blogging in the early 2000s, when it was dismissed by the public at large as something for the vain and arrogant, but is now considered a normal pastime.
Could have picked your words better Evan – what does that make the six million current users of Twitter? Socially progressive, we’d like to think, but make up your mind by watching the video below.
Incidentally, if you’re not following electricpig on Twitter, you really should. We’re fabulous.
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“Williams compared Twitter, the micro blogging service, to blogging in the early 2000s, when it was dismissed by the public at large as something for the vain and arrogant, but is now considered a normal pastime.”
Blogging is still abnormal. Only a tiny percentage of Internet users blog.