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My original point still stands, if the Twins hadn't disclosed the idea to him ... there might be no facebook today.


Wasn't the idea out in the open before that? A social network?


Very much so. Friendster and MySpace were already prominent.

Zuckerberg got the inspiration to do Facebook from the project the Winklevoss twins were trying to get off the ground, and further to do an elite social network riding off of Harvard. That was their primary contribution to what became Facebook; which is to say, not much.




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