Twitter Is The New Facebook Is The New MySpace

Do you remember the days that MySpace was actually cool?  I mean seriously there was a time when you were not cool if you didn’t have a MySpace.  Somewhere in the “time-frame of cool,” MySpace began to loose it’s steam, relevance and unique visitors were eclipsed my a new Sheriff in town by the name of Facebook.

The actual date the unofficial Sheriff takeover was in December of 2008.   It was this date that MySpace’s steady unique visitor number was eclipsed by Facebook’s rising number.  According to Compete Facebook passed MySpace’s monthly unique visitor number with 60 million and rising in December 2008.  MySpace has since floundered around for a few years peaking out not much very much higher than that December 2008 unique visitors number.  The harsh reality is that as of last month, Facebook had 128 million unique visitors and MySpace had 64 million unique visitors.

Twitter’s 30 million monthly unique visitor number may not totally appear to support my hypothesis; however I still believe that Twitter Is The New Facebook Is The New MySpace. What I mean by that is Facebook is such a money making machine that they may be loosing sight of the other side of the hill.  Similarly to people getting annoyed by all of the ridiculous graphics, adds, designs and ghetto-fabulous stuff on MySpace… the same thing can happen to Facebook.

Eventually people will get turned off by the annoying poke feature, useless applications, farmville stuff, endless event application, invites, tagging, petsville and annoying adds.  Not to mention the fact the middle school kids are in the early stages of taking over by simply adjusting their birthday to allow them to sign-up.  Facebook is an excellent platform, I think it should stay with a more minimalistic approach, but what do I know I’m writing a blogpost that I will use Facebook to help promote it.

Twitter’s success is not all about unique visitors.  It has a much broader effectiveness which includes being streamlined, consistent and more about keeping “The Main Thing, The Main Thing.”   According to Twitter’s co-founder Biz Stone stated, “We’re not a social network–that’s been a myth since the beginning.  We’re much more like an information network or a source of news.”

Twitter has the numbers to back up the information network statement.  According to the Fast Company Article Twitter is currently the fastest growing search engine.   If you want to know the scoop on anything, you don’t have to google and you definitely don’t go to Facebook… you go to Twitter.  Twitter is currently handling 800 million search queries per day.  That’s over 24 billion searches per month, which ends up being more than Bing (4.1 billion) and Yahoo (9.4 billion) combined.

I had written a previous post entitled Twitter vs. Facebook and one of the responders @GodsMac hit the nail on the head by stating, “Twitter for sure. Facebook is like a shopping mall, and Twitter is the Apple store. Chaos vs. productivity and progress.” Twitter Is The New Facebook Is The New MySpace.

I know it may seem hard to believe that Facebook is on the front-side of the backside of their success.  I mean seriously they have a new blockbuster that’s coming to the big screen and they are growing like wild flowers.  It’s not about growth it’s about staying power, reinvention and focus. There are plenty of other big name company’s that didn’t see the end in the rear-view mirror: Circuit City, TG&Y and MySpace to name a few.   That’s why I love Chick-fil-A, they do chicken and they do chicken really well…  that’s it, just a good ol’ chicken sandwich with a butter toasted bun and a couple pickle slices.

Maybe the #NewTwitter will have something to say about this whole discussion.  I guess only time will tell, but one of 500+ million Facebook users thinks that Twitter Is The New Facebook Is The New MySpace. Maybe it’s because I don’t understand all of the unnecessary Facebook madness.  KISS Keep it Simple Stupid.

What do you think?  Is Twitter The New Facebook Is The New Myspace?