> Twitter will get to a billion members,” Evan Williams, Twitter’s co-founder and former chief executive officer, said Monday, echoing a goal set by Facebook. Williams didn’t elaborate on a time frame.
via [sfgate.com](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/10/13/BUVC1FRMB2.DTL&feed=rss.news)
There are roughly 7 billion people on the planet. 1in 7 can’t possibly have Twitter accounts.
What Twitter will have soon is 1 billion accounts, which is not the same thing. I have two Twitter accounts. I know some people who have three or more.
Not saying 1 billion accounts isn’t impressive. But let’s be realistic here. And news outlets, how about pointing out obvious facts like this, rather than running Twitter’s spin machine verbatim.
