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Re: Pinterest Passes Twitter In Popularity, Facebook Stays On Top

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Post by pessimizer »

ryguytilidie wrote: post #26
pessimizer wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fake Twitter Followers Become Multimillion-Dollar Business http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/05/fake-twitter-follow... Over 27% of the Top 10 Twitter Accounts’ Followers Are Fake http://www.webpronews.com/over-27-of-the-top-10-twitter-acco... 5% of Twitter Users Are Fake [reports Twitter in S-1] http://investorplace.com/2013/10/5-of-twitter-users-are-fake... edit: 1 in 10 Twitter accounts is fake, say researchers…

Even if 60% of Twitter's users were fake they would still have more active users than Pinterest so the title is still pretty misleading.

I'd bet Pinterest has more non-member users, though. Very few people read tweets who aren't members of Twitter. With no evidence, I'd bet that Pinterest has more people looking at galleries of pictures who don't feel a need to register.

Re: Pinterest Passes Twitter In Popularity, Facebook Stays On Top

#32

Post by pessimizer »

hnriot wrote: post #25
AlexanderDhoore wrote: post #2

(Not that anyone cares, but:) I'm a 23 year-old without social media or smartphone. I consider myself a science experiment. The world is looking more alien to me every single day. For example: last night I was watching the Vergecast [1]. The last episode is literally 90 minutes of four adult men bitching about social media smartphone apps! It's insane. [1] http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/12/5204758/the-vergecast-105.…

I don't understand this at all. You read hn and yet you think the world looks alien because most people small hand held computers around with them??? To be honest this sounds like some attention seeking gesture, so people ask you about your "radical" smartphone-free lifestyle, especially since you prefixed your comment with "not that anyone cares". there's nothing alien about using a smartphone. it's a natural progre…

>you think the world looks alien because most people small hand held computers around with them???

Alien means different, not magic. This world is alien to the world of 2005, and most of that quality is a result of ubiquitous smartphones. The issues that we are grappling with now around smartphones were only the concern of science-fiction authors 10 years ago. I'm not sure how that could be controversial.

>prefixed your comment with "not that anyone cares".

That's called humility.

>you're not without social media, you're commenting on hn?

Does sending a letter count then?

Sorry for commenting, it's just that they only give me one downvote.

Re: Pinterest Passes Twitter In Popularity, Facebook Stays On Top

#33

Post by cclogg »

BlackDeath3 wrote: post #19
AlexanderDhoore wrote: post #8

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That would be good news. (Although I'm pretty sure almost every 23 year-old here has Facebook.)

23-year-old here. No Facebook.

Same with me lol. Only have an account for developer purposes since I have to put it in every app I work on haha.

Re: Pinterest Passes Twitter In Popularity, Facebook Stays On Top

#34

Post by BlackDeath3 »

cclogg wrote: post #33
BlackDeath3 wrote: post #19

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23-year-old here. No Facebook.

Same with me lol. Only have an account for developer purposes since I have to put it in every app I work on haha.

I was really into MySpace and because of that I just sort of naturally transitioned into Facebook probably somewhere around 2007-2008 (I don't remember exactly). Though MySpace served as a typical teen social tool throughout junior high and high school, it became less interesting to me after graduation (strangely enough, right around the time you start seeing less of your friends in-person) as I spent more time with fewer people (family and my girlfriend, mainly).

Right around the time that my girlfriend and I went off to university together, I pretty much just stopped using it. All of the (little) social interaction I felt I needed was satisfied in-person, and so I didn't really need it anymore. I used Facebook a couple of times (quite literally), but at some point I got fed up with hearing everybody talk about it all the time (I think the foregone conclusion that "everybody has one!" really irked me), so I looked at it all, realized that I really didn't use it, and deleted everything.

Though I still get the occasional friend trying to convince me to come back, I haven't, and I've been OK. I really don't need another Internet distraction, and I don't feel like I've missed out on anything substantial because of it.

Re: Pinterest Passes Twitter In Popularity, Facebook Stays On Top

#35

Post by ZoF »

pessimizer wrote: post #31
ryguytilidie wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even if 60% of Twitter's users were fake they would still have more active users than Pinterest so the title is still pretty misleading.

I'd bet Pinterest has more non-member users, though. Very few people read tweets who aren't members of Twitter. With no evidence, I'd bet that Pinterest has more people looking at galleries of pictures who don't feel a need to register.

I doubt it.

Oh look, these are opinions, not facts. What a pointless diatribe.

Re: Pinterest Passes Twitter In Popularity, Facebook Stays On Top

#36

Post by ceejayoz »

ZoF wrote: post #35
pessimizer wrote: post #31

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I'd bet Pinterest has more non-member users, though. Very few people read tweets who aren't members of Twitter. With no evidence, I'd bet that Pinterest has more people looking at galleries of pictures who don't feel a need to register.

I doubt it. Oh look, these are opinions, not facts. What a pointless diatribe.

Without direct access to their analytics and backends, educated guesses are the best thing available.

Re: Pinterest Passes Twitter In Popularity, Facebook Stays On Top

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Post by whatusername »

BlackDeath3 wrote: post #34
cclogg wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same with me lol. Only have an account for developer purposes since I have to put it in every app I work on haha.

I was really into MySpace and because of that I just sort of naturally transitioned into Facebook probably somewhere around 2007-2008 (I don't remember exactly). Though MySpace served as a typical teen social tool throughout junior high and high school, it became less interesting to me after graduation (strangely enough, right around the time you start seeing less of your friends in-person) as I spent more time with…

Wait till you have kids. Facebook works really well as a "sharing photos of the grand-kids" for all of those grandparents and great-aunts around the country/world

Re: Pinterest Passes Twitter In Popularity, Facebook Stays On Top

#38

Post by BlackDeath3 »

whatusername wrote: post #37
BlackDeath3 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was really into MySpace and because of that I just sort of naturally transitioned into Facebook probably somewhere around 2007-2008 (I don't remember exactly). Though MySpace served as a typical teen social tool throughout junior high and high school, it became less interesting to me after graduation (strangely enough, right around the time you start seeing less of your friends in-person) as I spent more time with…

Wait till you have kids. Facebook works really well as a "sharing photos of the grand-kids" for all of those grandparents and great-aunts around the country/world

Yeah, that's still more of an "if" than a "when". It's often more energy than it's worth dealing with other people now, let alone children.

Re: Pinterest Passes Twitter In Popularity, Facebook Stays On Top

#39

Post by X4 »

pessimizer wrote: post #23
X4 wrote: post #20

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I would really love to see some numbers on that, but thanks to the IPO we will never have any insight into that. They have to make up numbers like that, or they lose money. "It is an advertising-based business. Twitter also sells data. It will generate about $583 million this year. Twitter is expected to generate a little less than $1 billion in 2014, according to eMarketer. Most of Twitter's revenue comes from three…

Fake Twitter Followers Become Multimillion-Dollar Business http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/05/fake-twitter-follow... Over 27% of the Top 10 Twitter Accounts’ Followers Are Fake http://www.webpronews.com/over-27-of-the-top-10-twitter-acco... 5% of Twitter Users Are Fake [reports Twitter in S-1] http://investorplace.com/2013/10/5-of-twitter-users-are-fake... edit: 1 in 10 Twitter accounts is fake, say researchers…

Thank you pessimizer. Interesting data.
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