digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/Is_Twitter_Really_That_Big';digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff';digg_skin = 'normal';It seems as though far less people are actually using and contributing to the site than Twitter's recent hype and massive growth would suggest. In fact, the data shows that a large percentage of Twitter users have not "tweeted" since the first day they joined the service and at least a quarter of its users don't have any followers at all.

80 percent of Twitter users have less than 10 followers (i.e., for many users, their posts are not being widely tracked or read).

Could a single communications model span all or most of the systems in use on the web today, in one smooth continuum? How simple could we make it?

Google has not only spent time and energy making sure Wave can suck content into the platform, it has spent as much time and energy making sure it can get out too! Farewell destination based business models. Farewell walled gardens. If Wave gets adapted, it will put the user in control, and that is exactly what we need to do to break out of our current web 2.0 boundaries. That is what makes this development so remarkable.

Google just did some major plumbing on the web, and honestly, they were probably the only ones that could do this

a computer, a data projector, at least one interesting Web resource and an open-ended question or “Thinking Routine”