Twitter is more than a social network, says co-founder

Monday, January 23- 2012 at 10:51

Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter, has said the microblogging website is much more than a social network and has no time to waste worrying about newcomers like Google+, as it becomes more important as an information service and builds its advertising business, Reuters has reported. “Social is just one part of what we do. We think of it as an information utility,” he said, describing Twitter as a personal news service as much as a social network. “You don’t have to tweet at all. The biggest value is finding out what’s happening in your world in real time” Dorsey added. Twitter, which lets people send 140-character messages to groups of followers, has more than 100 million active users.

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