Even though some social networks have grown to include billions of people, the ramp up in communication hasn’t increased proportionally. Even as you add friends or follow users, you can only talk to so many. Facebook users with over 500 friends only actively communicate with between 10 to 20 people. Similarly, Twitter users who have follower counts... See more

Decreases friction between nodes and creates a higher level of synchronicity between members of the hive. This produces stronger ties between individual members and allows the hive to act collectively.

If you want to survive, don’t just build a network. You have to build a hive, and eventually a hivemind.

Our top priority is to build useful and engaging products that enable people to connect and share through mobile devices and personal computers.

Our mission is to make the world more open and connected.

Today it’s no longer enough to “connect the world.”

Like honeybee scouts, messaging apps decrease the friction of centralized nodes in the 1:1 communication between individual nodes and allow for emergent behaviors.

As social networks like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram grow larger, they skew disproportionately toward supernodes—celebrity, meme and business accounts.

The hive is a smarter, evolved network that is bigger than the sum of its parts. The hive: