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Will Google Plus take away momentum from Twitter?
Everyone compares G+ to Facebook, but what's the impact on Twitter going to be if people migrate in large numbers.
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I don't think that it will take momentum away from Twitter in the short term but that is Google's long term goal. By letting their contract with Twitter expire for realtime search and removing tweets from search results it is clear that Google is trying to redirect the fire hose to their own properties.
Google Plus is now less than two weeks since release and already it's been reported that there are millions of users. Personally, I find it hard to believe there won't be any impact on either Twitter or Facebook.
It is possible for Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter to all co-exist for quite some time.
Yes, the entrance of Google+ is going to have some impact on Facebook and Twitter, in particular, but it overlaps with them in slightly different ways, so it won't make either of them obsolete any time soon.
But, as people only have but so much time, they will have to divide this time across more players, to the extent that they engage across multiple networks, or they will favor one network over another, in the event that their contacts are duplicated across a particular set of networks.
In just under a week of usage, I have noticed that many technologists who have thus far avoided FB entirely are more than happy to at least test out G+. I also have a decent percentage of colleagues who use both networks -- at least for now.
At this time, I feel comfortable in saying that G+ is going to have an impact on the direction that the other networks take because it has some overlap with each of them, and that should help to improve the quality for each of them.
There is still room in the market for the four I mentioned, but there will be *some* ongoing impact from Google. Not necessarily momentum changing, but some nonetheless.
Yes it might, but for those of us who have established networks on Twitter (and other platforms) it's not smart to jump 100% to G+ yet. I think other networks have a challenge in competing for eyeballs but people will settle into a network that fits their communication style and for some it will not be G+ but Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin.
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