Facebook Enters Twitter Territory
Posted by Nick O'Neill on May 21st, 2008 9:27 PM 
On Monday I made a list of suggestions for Facebook. One of those suggestions was that Facebook integrates Twitter functionality into their site. As of today you can now update your status via text message. While you there isn’t currently reply functionality built in as there is with Twitter, this is one step toward total Twitter functionality.
My guess is that we will see full blown Twitter functionality built into Facebook in the near future. The reality is that Twitter has yet to cross into the mainstream but the benefit of using Twitter is unquestionable. That’s why Facebook should take the same service and bring it to the masses overnight. I already have friends replying to my status updates on my wall. We are only steps away from them replying via my feed and via their own status.
While I’m not quite sure how Facebook can quickly duplicate Twitter functionality in their site without breaking the status updates and letting people use statuses as two-way communication, I think that the people at Facebook can quickly figure out a solution. Would you stop using Twitter in exchange for Facebook? Do you think Facebook can bring
Twitter functionality to the masses?
Update
I think I may have jumped the gun on this one. It appears that you could always update via SMS.
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May 21st, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Good idea, a live ticker on the left of the page ! aahah
Mark, just do it.
May 21st, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Dude… you’ve been able to update facebook statuses for more than a year via text messages. The only difference now is that you don’t have to prepend your message with the ‘@’ character to have it post as your status message… you just type.
May 21st, 2008 at 10:22 pm
Good idea, a live ticker on the left of the page ! aahah
Mark, just do it.
May 22nd, 2008 at 12:55 am
My guess is that facebook’s take on twitter-like usage will come from the redesigned feed (after all, they’re merging it with the wall).
Making that feed more real-time will make it more twitter-like and friendfeed-like. Public conversations naturally fit a feed that shows you history.
Actually, it may be a bit of both - they can just make status updates go into their feeds.
The main element I would wonder about is how to track back-and-forth exchanges. Friendfeed has replies nested under feed items. Facebook has “wall to wall” currently. Twitter has nothing except the @ convention, which people navigate manually. Wonder if Facebook has an improvement in mind in this respect?
May 22nd, 2008 at 1:55 am
My guess is that facebook’s take on twitter-like usage will come from the redesigned feed (after all, they’re merging it with the wall).
Making that feed more real-time will make it more twitter-like and friendfeed-like. Public conversations naturally fit a feed that shows you history.
Actually, it may be a bit of both - they can just make status updates go into their feeds.
The main element I would wonder about is how to track back-and-forth exchanges. Friendfeed has replies nested under feed items. Facebook has “wall to wall” currently. Twitter has nothing except the @ convention, which people navigate manually. Wonder if Facebook has an improvement in mind in this respect?
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:42 am
lol I was reading that thinking “Wow I’ve been able to do that for years”.
i fink fbook shud implement coding 2 instantly reject NE1 using txt spk
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:42 am
lol I was reading that thinking “Wow I’ve been able to do that for years”.
i fink fbook shud implement coding 2 instantly reject NE1 using txt spk
May 22nd, 2008 at 5:57 am
the benefit of using a cell phone is unquestionable
the benefit of using Internet is unquestionable
but could you develop on:
“the benefit of using Twitter is unquestionable”?
I’m not being ironic, i’m not a twitter user yet and i dont understand the hype around it
c
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:57 am
the benefit of using a cell phone is unquestionable
the benefit of using Internet is unquestionable
but could you develop on:
“the benefit of using Twitter is unquestionable”?
I’m not being ironic, i’m not a twitter user yet and i dont understand the hype around it
c
May 23rd, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Can remember F/Book introducing Twitter functionality,maybe there are just too many things to know. And to Cedric, I’ve always thought that the use of Twitter was that it did for blogging & conversations what email did to letters. It’s the just a few key words flip.
May 23rd, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Can remember F/Book introducing Twitter functionality,maybe there are just too many things to know. And to Cedric, I’ve always thought that the use of Twitter was that it did for blogging & conversations what email did to letters. It’s the just a few key words flip.