Twitter’s co founder, Evan Williams is pledging that the social network’s membership base will swell to one billion users. While he wouldn’t elaborate on the time-frame of the ambitious milestone, no one is really disputing that the goal will be achieved from the current 165 million users.
One question I have is that if a billion twitterers pound out 140 characters randomly will there will be at least one tweet that’s not self serving or pointing to an article that I have no plans of reading? Ah, the curse of cynicism.
Seriously though, with the current user base cranking out 100 million micro messages a day it bodes well for the internet economy on the whole. These messages have to be stored somewhere. Storage providers will gain there. The company has said that it’s present infrastructure can’t sustain this growing work load so more servers and new data center facilities will be required. This is barely touching on the entire operation chain leading back to the wireless providers or the smartphone salespersons. Benefits abound.
The marketing momentum will follow suit with millions more users signing on and the monetization models will be perfected in the next few months creating additional growth possibilities.
Just as Zuckerberg has noted that Facebook’s march to a billion is almost a guarantee, we can say the same about the march to millions of dollars, maybe billions, to those riding on Twitter’s coattails. So tweet on!
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