Social networking websites continue calling itself other names just to show their significance and resistance to be anything less. Sarah Perez, Twitter VP for business and corporate development Kevin Thau said that Twitter is not a social network. Several years ago Facebook said the same thing about itself. In an email sent to a user whose account was deleted Facebook wrote:
"Facebook is a social utility that connects you with the people around you, not a “social networking site".
This time it’s Twitter’s turn to showboat us. It is a microblogging service! Thau says, "Twitter is for news. Twitter is for content. Twitter is for information."
But whatever they say they remain social networks, because apart from their secondary roles (which they think are main) their primary usage is for associating many people together to help them associate with each other, which stresses they ARE SOCIAL networks. The same way we may chat, we may organize events and other multiple things with Gmail but it still remains an EMAIL service.
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