A very interesting read Andreas. Google's core is search, which real time is not quite ready to cover yet, but it will eventually.
For Twitter, it's hot right now. You're right about that.
If they focused on core and social, they could overtake Facebook soon, then Google in 5 years once real-time search tech becomes a reality. Everyone I know who regularly uses Facebook also uses Twitter. Either service could replace the other.
The interesting realisation for me - twitter doesn't need to beat facebook in social or communication. That's not their game. And Google "just" enables search and can improve via real time there. Twitter will put context to content. Think the "New York Real Times" or Press Agencies.
Agreed. But Twitter needs those page views from Facebook, that "time spent online" to be on their side of the fence rather than Facebooks. Real time is the next big thing.
But. Governments are cracking down. Real time, together with collaboration = swift revolutions. These are bad for all leadership positions, whether democraticly elected or not.
Real time will have a very large number of obstacles placed in its path by these authorities. But it's the natural course of evolution, and will most likely win out in the end.
For Twitter, it's hot right now. You're right about that.
If they focused on core and social, they could overtake Facebook soon, then Google in 5 years once real-time search tech becomes a reality. Everyone I know who regularly uses Facebook also uses Twitter. Either service could replace the other.