&gt; Twitter is the world’s most important social network.<p>I see sentiment like this and it just reminds me of how insular journalism is. Twitter is incredibly popular amongst journalists and a certain kind of person, but does that really make it &quot;the most important&quot; social network?<p>Facebook has an order of magnitude more daily active users. It might not have the appeal to news and political junkies of Twitter, but it&#x27;s intimately involved in the lives of a billion people.<p>Calling Twitter the world&#x27;s most important social network is like calling The New Yorker the world&#x27;s most important media outlet. It&#x27;s a niche product for a certain group of journalistically-influential people.