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You can imagine Twitter in the early days saying along the lines of "Twitter relies on SMS almost more so than the Internet, and there are over 3 Billion SMS users in the world."


Yaw-- defining what a market is is kind of tricky. Was Twitter in the SMS business? My rule of thumb is asking "What business/service/behavior do they displace? Whose revenue will suffer if they succeed?"




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