Social networking 'utopia' isn't coming. The number of Twitter users last month surpassed 300 million. Study shows "tribalism" is alive and well in the social network eraScientists estimate users can have 150 Twitter connections before being overwhelmediPhone photo sharing app, Path, limits your network to just 50 people Editor's note: Chris Taylor is San Francisco bureau chief of Mashable, a popular tech news blog and a CNN.com content partner.
(CNN) -- As 2011 dawned, Facebook released a map that spoke to our era of social media in much the same way the first pictures of Earth from space spoke to the 1960s. The map showed the connections between the world's Facebook friends -- a number now approaching 700 million -- as beams of light. No one has done this, but just think what that map would look like if you were to add Twitter users, whose numbers last month surpassed 300 million.
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