The Easiest Way to Misunderstand Twitter and Facebook

“ The most useful bit of Here Comes Everybody, for me, was Mr Shirky pointing out that any blog that gets beyond a certain audience size stops being personal and starts being broadcast. As he reminds us, More Is Different. The easiest way to misunderstand Twitter and Facebook is to take them as a single type of network. Because there are celebrities on Twitter, with hundreds of thousands of followers, people assume that's what it's for. That it's a broadcast, celebrity, mass audience tool. And while it is that, it's also a small, personal, intimate one. Private accounts, small networks. ”

Russell Davies commenting on the books Here Comes Everybody and Cognitive Surplus in a blog entry Cognitive surplus - blog all dog-eared pages.