Twitter, Facebook Did Not Make Fast Company's List of Innovative Companies
Fast Company today released its annual list of the 50 most innovative companies. While smaller social networks like Pinterest made the cut, Facebook and Twitter were noticeably absent this year. Why?
Fast Company today released its annual list of the 50 most innovative companies. While smaller social networks like Pinterest made the cut, Facebook and Twitter were noticeably absent this year. Why?
“Neither produced innovations worth celebrating,” wrote the Fast Company staff, the key words being “worth celebrating.”
Both companies launched new initiatives in the last year, but Facebook’s copycat product Poke failed to impress, while Twitter’s photo filters were also deemed unoriginal. Facebook’s Graph Search didn’t appear until January 2013, past the 2012 deadline, and there was no mention of Twitter’s TV rating.
Other companies this year brought new business models and that special “ethos of creativity” that the editors were looking for.
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