• by David Goetzl  @dgoetzl, December 5, 2011

At the MediaPost Email Insider Summit, Eloqua’s Dennis Dayman takes on the question whether email is dead with the social media boom. The numbers don't indicate it yet. There are 188 billion emails sent a day, but of course Twitter (300 million accounts) and Facebook (maybe 1 billion) are growing.

“It's hard to imagine that email will remain a dominant source of communications for years to come,” Dayman said.

But ...

Email probably will dominate the business world.

“We really find it very hard to believe that we're going to be conducting business through poking and retweeting all day long,” Dayman said.