Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. Estimates of the number of daily users vary as the company does not release the number of active accounts. In November 2008, Jeremiah Owyang of Forrester Research estimated that Twitter had 4-5 million users. A February 2009 Compete.com blog entry ranks Twitter as the third largest social network (behind Facebook and MySpace), and puts the number of users at roughly 6 million and the number of monthly visitors at 55 million.

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I was out with some friends having a drink tonight when the conversation sparked a memory of a big prediction I had a couple years back. Everyone thought it was a bit nuts, but in the interest of making it public record I’m going to share this prediction with you. Why do I need to make it public record? Well, according to my friends one or all of the following thing will happen if I’m right:

• They will immediately pay me $1,000,000
• Pigs will fly out of their asses and do some form of aerial acrobatic show.
• Hell will not only freeze over, but Satan will open some form of ice skating rink that also serves free heart shaped lollipops.es

Now that I’ve got that out of the way I’m going to share one of my most far out predictions for the future. Call me crazy, but I truly believe this will become reality in our lifetime.

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We live in a marketing world fascinated with talk of Facebook, YouTube, and MySpace. They’re the first thing that jump to mind when you discuss social media or social networks with perhaps a distant 4th being the omni-present “blogosphere“. As we descend on each network voraciously it’s easy to forget to step back sometimes and really evaluate who you’re reaching through each network.

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I’ve decided that I’ve been under utilizing twitter almost as much as I’ve been under utilizing this blog. Without exaggerating I get 10 to 15 interesting pieces of work or top notch articles sent to me via email each day and I never even begin to blog about them all. I find myself saving drafts on articles and then not publishing them.

What does that mean for you? For starters you’re missing out on some really fun, innovative, and/or inspiring work. I’ve decided I’m going to try and pass along at least 3 a day from now on.

If you want to follow me on twitter visit http://twitter.com/TMTYL.

So John Borthwick (former AOL exec) woke up bored yesterday and thought, you know what, let’s make some noise and see what happens if I predict that Twitter will kill Google … so props to Borthwick, he’s completely off, he knows it, but it got tons of people talking about micro-blogging, real time search, social media, and the future of search … so here’s my take.

Google is not going anywhere … People have been predicting that Google will go down for years, but they’re still the best company out there, in terms of financial stability, innovation, culture, and business strategy … Google has 81.5% of search engine market share:

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