Twitter Is For News, Content And Information. But It's Not A Social Network, Says Twitter VP

Twitter isn’t a social network, announces Kevin Thau (@kevinthau), Twitter’s Vice President for business and corporate development, at a Nokia World 2010 presentation yesterday.

It’s a nice soundbite, but I think it’s fair to say that for a lot of Twitter’s 145+ million users, it’s far more about the social aspect than anything else. Twitter is a fantastic resource for breaking and sharing news and information, and is now the tenth most-visited website on the internet, but, certainly from my experience on the network, as many people use the platform for chat and social interaction as they do the submission and sharing of data.

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