Let's face it, YES is killing the concept, not just Twitter, but WP, FB, (soon Wave) and few others, you can count for millions their users, you can see them visiting more than once a day their sites, teenagers have the tools and the know-how to get fun there, for those that deny it, they act like my father who is still stuck on audio tapes (lol)
There is no serious stats on vB owners? they can ban you they can warn you (or bully you) but you never see numbers on how many licenses have been sold? how many of then are for Game forums (my guess 40%+) how many are dedicated to medicine, education, government, etc...
Of course you can go to MySpace and ask if the site is slowly dying, (after millions of dollars generated) they would blatantly deny it! but stats says the contrary, so by not having stats on vB they are not aware of... nobody will accept their knowledge or what they do it's almost useless trash ... the truth will set you free!
p.s. I love WP, you can't beat that!
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