is the new
, even as
struggles not to be tagged as 'the new
Orkut
'. In a bid to catch up with
's fast-growing user base,
has now introduced
Twitter'
s 'Retweet' feature on its website, called 'Share', through which, interesting status updates can be shared with friends. This application comes only months after LiveFeed and status-tagging, both of which suspiciously resemble
features.
It's obvious that
is making a desperate effort to hold on to its users, but is
the way of the future?
user, Richa Gupta, a computer engineer from Mumbai, certainly feels so. "After random people started adding me on Facebook asking for my age/sex/location, I decided to move to
.
, right now, is now a place to share pictures and interact with family and friends."
Ironically, the reason why a lot of people shifted from
Orkut
to
- to protect their privacy - contradicts the reason they are on
- to interact.
Says Dharmesh Gandhi, a producer at
CNBC TV 18
, "The great thing about
is that you get real time updates of writers, critics, people who are jobless -
is great for conversations."
Twitter's
popularity. Shashi Tharoor, whose 'cattle class' remark on
saw his following count increase from a few thousands to 622,634 followers at last count, is a networking phenomenon now. "Facebook never got as much media attention as Twitter did," opines stylist Shruti W. "Gossip columns referring to tweets about celebrities has caught the fancy of the masses."
Saad Akhtar, owner of
flyyoufools.com
, whose follower count saw a hike when Chetan Bhagat 'blocked' him on Twitter, gives his thoughts, "My comics have been retweeted more than a 100 times on Twitter. Facebook couldn't help. Controversy or not, Twitter is the best networking tool today."
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