Meritocracy in Silicon Valley

Evan Williams , the founder of Twitter has made his millions in Blogger. He is very well connected in Silicon Valley and Web 2.0 ecosystem. I also admit that Twitter can be a useful tool: Integrating it with other social networking websites like Facebook or even personal blogs can have good uses.

Everyday there are tens of new websites popping up on the internet providing different services: From URL shrinkers to Corporate collaboration tools. Now if each one of them had the problems Twitter has had for the past couple of months, it would have been dean in the water. Very dead indeed.

It was revealed recently that Twitter has only 1.5 million users. It might sound a lot but compared to many other websites, it is not a lot at all.

I guess Mr. Williams should be very lucky to have such good friends in the media to fan his hype so feverishly so he can manage to increase the number of the users of his service like that.