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Yes, every one of these folks - mostly friends and family - has a Facebook account and are active users of Facebook.

Question, do these people who find it hard to grasp how twitter works have facebook accounts?

As facebook is way more complicated than twitter is (which is just a textbox, a submit button and that's basically it).

They have simply morphed into the likes of Twitter/FaceBook/etc and in the process have become much easier to use by the general public.

Twitter's valuation is down to $19B, which is what Facebook paid for WhatsApp.

Would love to know more about what Facebook is on the hook for with the freebooting, if any HN IP specialists are around...

While Facebook has diversified into different, successful, products and platforms, Twitter has stagnated, fumbled around and underwhelmed.

If Twitter is earning 1/3rd or 1/4th of the amount per user Facebook is in the long term this could be a problem.

Twitter's problem is that it went public as a growth company comparable to Facebook when it might just be a niche social network.

When you make a Facebook post you get nothing but pure self-validation!

Google and Facebook clearly excel in this area now.

But we have to remember what killed blogging more than Facebook itself: webspam.

Facebook got this right - as the simple concept of a "Friend" request translates perfectly to the real-world analog of making friends.

Google and Facebook have the "fuck user privacy" mindset.

Facebook + Vk only, not logged in, ublock origin, only session cookies enabled (exception - facebook).

What's the reason the signal has to travel to Facebook's headquarters and back in order to share photos?

Investors were valuing Twitter at close to $40 Billion because they were expecting Facebook-like growth.