In a typicaly ridiculous post, Robert Scoble shares some shocking statistics:
“There are seven billion people on the Earth. So far only about 30 million have even turned on [a Twitter] account and some of my friends who are analyzing the Twitter data say that active accounts are less than 10 million … This demonstrates that getting an extraordinary amount of hype won’t help build a super business.”
I don’t even know what the last sentence means, but it doesn’t matter, becasue Robert’s math is skewed. There are 7 billion people on earth and 30 million have Twitter accounts. That’s only a valid measure if all 7 billion people have computers, internet access and an interest in Twitter. Of course, that’s not the case.
Many people of my parents’ generation have an interest in the Internet that barely stretches past simple web browsing and email. A huge portion of those 7 billion people live in underdeveloped countries where finding clean water is more important that how many retweets the’ve gathered.
Also, his Twitter/Facebook comparison is a bit apples and oranges. For me, Facebook is for people in my past. Twitter is for people in my present.
