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Evan Williams Predicts That “Normal People” Will Use Twitter In Five Years

TechCrunch  Mar 02 09

Twitter co-founder Evan Williams was on Charlie Rose last Friday. In the clip after the jump, he predicts that Twitter will be something "that normal people do" within five years. He compares Twitter to the early days of blogging (another topic he knows something about, having been the founder of what became Blogger). When blogging started, most people didn't get it and it seemed like a huge waste of time that only appealed to narcissists. Twitter gets a lot of the same criticisms, yet somehow more and more people find it a valuable mode of communication. Hopefully, it won't take five years for Twitter to seem normal. Full story...

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