Conclusion: Did Bilton Convince Me?

McKayla Maroney is not impressed...

Overall when just simply looking over at how the novel introduced the facts about how Twitter gained new followers after new affluencers joined the site, one would be very cautious to believe this because there are no outside sources being quoted or charts presented. Solely based upon the contents of the book, did Nick Bilton convince me that celebrities were the one's that made Twitter famous? Not a chance. However, this can be explained by the novel simply wanting to communicate the history of Twitter and not a specific argument about it. That's it. After doing brief research, one can find that Twitter did actually gain a statistically significant amount of new Twitter followers after new celebrities, or affluencers joined. This can be seen by charts from outside sources showing the growth of new Twitter followers which match up very closely with the time frames presented in the book as to when big celebrities started using the site. One must also keep in mind that the author, Nick Bilton did do an enormous amount of research in order to write this book as he was able to access official Twitter documents that may have had this statistical data that validates this idea.