Perhaps no one is more qualified to answer that question than Biz Stone. He'll be appearing at Columbia College Chicago on Tuesday, October 6, beginning at 7:00 p.m. in Columbia’s Film Row Cinema, 1104 S. Wabash, 8th Floor.
Interestingly enough, he worked on Blogger prior to founding Twitter.
Twitter was initially described as a microblogging platform, though the term has somewhat fallen by the wayside. In an interview with The Guardian, Stone insists that multiple networks supplement each other, rather than detract:
Do you get bored hearing stories about how 'Twitter will kill Facebook' or people wondering whether it will push somebody else out of the way?
BS: I think a lot of folks are just wired that way. It's product A or product B, like those blind taste tests. There is something healthy about friendly competition - it's like a scrimmage or a pick-up game... that's good. But the truth of it is that we're all working together.
Look at all the companies in Silicon Valley: they all have, to varying degrees, open systems that interoperate with one another. People are using these systems for different reasons. There's room for everybody, although I think people are often wired to think that way.
It's like Coke versus Pepsi - I noticed the other day that they are following each other on Twitter.
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