YES i really want facebook to kill that little malicious website!

You can keep writing about killing Twitter, but the one to many platform of Twitter not reliant on a dual approval to get ‘following’ on FB will limit viral broadcasting to allow for the news newscasting that exists on Twitter and can’t happen the same way on FB.

Not everyone has 2k+ followers on FB to get a viral comment going the same as Twitter .

FB = inner circle; Twitter = public party.

If FB thought this change would kill Twitter, why would they have bothered offering Twitter $500M in stock? Stop being so sensationalist please, kthx.

Twitter is killing it due to “follow” and tweetbot access to status in volume. This is not yet a first step.

twitter wont be killed, what makes it a unique website are its users!

Open is good. But I don’t see this killing Twitter.

Nice linkbait, but this is not going to kill Twitter.

Facebook following the leaders again.

Fail.

Why are you so fixated on FB killing Twitter? I suppose by taking this outrageous position you will get kudos of you are right. But seriously, I think reports of Twitter’s death are greatly exaggerated.

I for one, do not welcome our new FB overlords. I can barely stand to log onto FB. Maybe third party apps reading statuses will make FB more tolerable, but to me the two apps seem different. Time will tell.

Facebook has been dead to me for some time. I like something more streamlined, simple, and fun. Twitter is that for me.

i dont think it will kill twitter, most of the status updates that i provide on facebook are personal and between friends, where twitter allows for posting of relevant articles, sites & knowledge to a specific group.

Also the CTR on any sites posted to a facebook update dont get anywhere close to the same number as a twitter update… even with 5 times as many contacts

facebook is more personal and twitter is information overload

For Facebook to kill Twitter, people would actually, in large masses, have to HATE Twitter. Celebs are hopping onto Twitter in droves and actually sending tweets to fans and loving it, because they can follow some tiny number of people and yet still interact. Not to mention, barrier to entry is FAR smaller. Twitter essentially does one thing and does it well. Facebook is for PR firms to promote their celebs stuff, and for people to interact in relatively small numbers (5000 max.) Like the person above said, Twitter is a public party, and there is no limit to people who can follow you that we have ever heard about. Someday Twitter may die, but it won’t be Facebook, or Dell or Google or any already established company that pulls the trigger. If they could have outdone Twitter, they already would have.

What I makes me addicted to twitter is the ability to extend my experience through SMS messages on my phone. DM’s to my phone extends my Social Network to where ever I am.

If Facebook offers this already or will offer this soon it will be interesting to see if what will happen.

I have to agree w/ most people. I think this is great for facebook, but I don’t see it as the end of Twitter. I believe Twitter has done a good job of creating its community that is very loyal.

Twitter’s beauty is in it’s simplicity. This is just another step into the quagmire that is Facebook. Maybe instead of worrying about who is “killing” whom, we should be focused on what makes each unique. Each has and will continue to have it’s own little corner of the web. That’s part of what makes web 2.0 what it is. The new standard of a social web.

Until a broad base of users start to adopt familiar twitter conventions for how posting occurs, i’m not quite sure if this is a twitter-killer except during live events like the Inauguration with the CNN Partnership where people are gathered around a shared interest. Twitter remains different in that it isn’t quite so tethered to a user’s actual identity the way that facebook is, it’s more about virtual identity with option to tweetup so that probably aids in people being a little more liberal with their words.

The real loser here is probably friendfeed, honestly. If facebook wins aggregation from many sources with this move, they’ll effectively kill friendfeed’s differentiation factor. they already have user-base, volume of relavent content to handle a mass influx of updates plus the digested format of the newsfeed that people already expect. They also have commenting on all of the aforementioned solved very elegantly.

I think the real opportunity here is for a new twitter-post-to-facebook-app killer to come in and auto-post twitter updates of varying types to the RIGHT places on facebook (i.e. links and retweets to links section). I had to deactivate the current one because it was confusing people.

Aside from twitter, there’s a lot of potential here. Google latitude or anyone else could also use this new API to post location to status. Evernote or wordpress could push entries as public notes with a linkback, etc. Cool stuff. I’m excited

First of all, as much as I love Twitter, Facebook eclipsed it a long, long time ago in terms of users and relevance. I wrote about how Facebook could easily replace Twitter back in April of 2007: http://www.echoditto.com/dittodevices

But my opinion has shifted since then. Twitter has been around long enough and evolved into its own unique medium that Facebook may not be able to — or want to — replicate. Twitter is a hybrid of instant messaging and social networking. It’s a more intense experience to monitor and take part in than Facebook is. Anyone whose friends have begged them to de-link their tweets from their Facebook status has learned this.

Twitter will continue to grow and be useful, but I doubt it will ever become truly mainstream the way Facebook is, at least in its current state. And I wouldn’t cite celebrity usage as evidence for anything.

As a sidenote, I think Friendfeed is the one that should be fearing irrelevance, as Facebook continues to further integrate what people are doing elsewhere on the web into its all-consuming News Feed.

I agree with everyone that says Twitter isn’t dying at this. I have 150 friends on Facebook. It takes me a LONG time to build that. And I am choosy about who is there because I get to see EVERYTHING about you. On Twitter, I accept a much larger following (currently about 1,500), because I have a lower bar and I can see your interesting message without all your party photos. Sorry, Twitter is growing like crazy and Facebook isn’t going to stop that.

Facebook has become an absolutely convoluted mess. This adds another layer of complication to the already disastrous interface. I don’t think Facebook will wind up “killing” anyone, other than themselves.

Great! One company introduces a “much needed” feature that is supposed to kill “The feature” of another company which does not have a business model as yet. Wow! Who the heck is running strategy here. Or is “twitter killer” just the buzzword coined and adopted by this blog author?

Either way, twitter has a very loyal following. So if FB expects that twitter users will drop everything and run over to FB, just because they have “status update” then they are wrong. Once again I think that this is a point driven in by the blog author “Nick O’Neil” and does not truly represent what FB is thinking.

Hmmm last I checked, every time Facebook updates their API everything breaks. Google “Facebook API + (rant, complain, or problem)” FB has good ideas but if they don’t fix their current problems, they will experience MAJOR issues.

Windows ring a bell?

Oh, wait. But unlike Facebook, MSFT can monetize. Oops, did I just say that out loud?

You, sir, are an ass! Just kidding, I just wanted to pile on. I think u may b right, actually

This move will certainly not going to kill Twitter because Twitter is a FaceBook without extra bullshit!

@Marshall … hillarious

Facebook is the Microsoft of web 2.0.

ok, guys you just have to know , that facebook already killed twitter here in europe.and also did in many other parts of the world.

there is a .com at the end of these sites, stop thinking like there is only usa in this planet.

twitter is much more than just status updates. it is true social networking without all the app garbage that you have to deal with on facebook… opening up facebook’s status updates will do nothing more than open up facebook’s status updates, LOL.

i like twitter better because i dont have to deal with the daily dose of “what kind of bread are you” or “tell me 25 useless things about you” like on facebook. lame.

I don’t know that Facebook *wants* to kill Twitter. It’s not as if Twitter is sitting on a pile of money, or that Facebook has sufficiently monetized their core business that they are forced to expand.

But FB could blow past Twitter if they wanted to. they have the user base. I’m sure Twitter would continue and be an innovative service, but FB can do whatever it wants. It’s the 500 pound gorilla.

These comments amaze me. Facebook and Twitter have two different focuses.

Facebook will never takeover from Twitter and vice versa.

No way. Twitter’s most loyal users are the new adopters who continue to use the site to share and learn from each other. My twitter feed contains links to social media ebooks. My facebook feed lets me know what movies my friends are going to.

Last I checked, Facebook does not offer the ability to send or receive status updates by SMS. Opening the API is useful for it provides sunlight to the walled garden, but other than mobile device apps, there is no connection to FB. Twitter was built for SMS, and that’s why opening the API is no competition.

I have to completely agree with CoryS:”FB = inner circle; Twitter = public party.”
I am extremely selective with who I allow into my FB circle. Twitter, well heck, welcome to the party!

Opening up these things is a good news.

I would have hoped for Facebook to give us more commenting features through the API. For example, for an application to be able to post a user comment for a status or a note so that it integrates with Facebook’s comments for statuses and notes in the mini-feed.

It would allow app developers to build FriendFeed-like applications with additional features while still keeping Facebook’s current commenting system intact.

Twitter Killer? No way … http://tinyurl.com/acs2xw

Facebook opening its status API to kill twitter . It dont think twitter is just about updating your status.

Nick,
Nice headline. Not a snowball’s chance in hell of this killing twitter.

It’s funny. You always write about killing twitter using facebook, but you are using twitter.
Facebook and Twitter has different market, so both will be up and exist.

Facebook allows posting of links, say goodbye to Digg

Facebook allows upload of videos, say goodbye to YouTube

Facebook allows upload of photos, say goodbye to Flickr

Ridiculous analysis. My Facebook friends are so different from my Twitter friends. This development on Facebook would have little impact on Twitter.

Twitter will surpass Facebook in 2010. It’s usage model is much more in tune with how ordinary people would want to organize their relationships. It is asynchronous in a way that Facebook is not designed to be. You can have unlimited followers and only follow a few people. You can communicate with different groups in different ways because all the connections are customized. With Facebook, you have one big group of people all mixed together.

In addition, Twitter makes it easy to have different accounts for different usages. Why do you think all of the Twitter clients making waves support multiple accounts? I have a personal account and a business Twitter account. I don’t have two Facebook accounts… it’s just too much of a pain in the ass.

In this way, Twitter can be both MORE personal and more of a party as outlined above. It is this amazing flexibility and simplicity that makes Twitter such a compelling platform.

Very few of the 150+ friends I have on Facebook upload photos or videos. They mostly use status updates. As more and more people discover Twitter and realize that they have much more control over these updates, you’ll see usage erosion at Facebook.

I would not be surprised that if in 2010 Twitter usage blew past Facebook.

not all people use twitter have fb account

This makes no difference. My friends on Facebook has boring, mundane lifes, and a lot of their statuses are just noise.

On Twitter, however, I do not follow people just because they are my friends, I follow people if I find what they say interesting.

There’s a huge difference, and I would never switch.

Twitter and Facebook are completely different, people use them for different purposes. No killing tonight.

Facebook wins after twitter

@Pat Meneth Right. In Switzerland, there are about 5′000 people on twitter versus 1mio on Facebook.

To say this is a Twitter killer is not to fully appreciate the difference in the mediums. That’s like early TV advocates saying TV would kill radio, or the web would kill print.

Two separate functions.

@Pat Meneth - Did Twitter ever get going in Europe? It only just got rolling in the states from what I understand. I heard a year ago people were saying it’s not going mainstream, and now it is. Don’t worry, I predict that once Europe figures out what Twitter is (like the US is doing right now) it will catch on.

Twitter and Facebook are two different experiences. They are like two separate parties on two different busses on the same freeway, and now Facebook has decided to open the windows. Each one is reliant on their own personality type to continue. Open status is great but has it’s own set of problems. Twitter will adapt and move on.

Everyone “in the know” knows that Facebook will follow MySpace..

Facebook is so yesterday.

Twitter is the future.

Facebook is ugly. complicated. proprietary. full of spam.

Twitter is elegant. simple. clean. interactive. convenient. viral. OPEN. perfect.

Good for FB for the new API, killing twitter is just a wet dream. P.S. I found this post through twitter.

LOL, you know, once something goes on the web no matter where it is it really isn’t private anymore.

Anyway, much of the problem is that people don’t take the time to see how these applications fully work - and the additional applications provided to the applications.

For instance, you can add the twitter application to your facebook and instantly update from one source. I enjoy using twitter for the bulk of my day for the quick updates, and will go into FB at the end of the day to see what is happening there. Then within FB I can have many friends, but can start a photo album and really decide on who sees what is in that album - even if it is just one person. It’s all about customizing.

And within FB I can start customized groups of people and sort my new friends into different categories. I enjoy mixing with all kinds of people doing all kinds of things.

It all boils down to what you want to get out of these resources.

Will FB kill Twitter? Highly unlikely. In fact, it will probably be Twitter who saves Facebook in the end.

PS: my twitter page is much more fun to look at than my FB page.

Like many others, don’t quite get why this would be a Twitter killer.

In my opinion there has to be more fundamental changes with FB for this to happen.

But as I currently see it, Twitter is the microbloggosphere and FB is a social network with the potenital to become a micropublishing platform.

Point being is that, I will call into effect my Costanza Rule of Social Media. Which is we inherently want to keep our worlds apart. As in, I want to keep FB focused to friends and family while I use Twitter to communicate to a focused niche business audience.

Surely Facebook are worried that Twitter is going to overtake them because it’s so much easier to use than FB.

Twitter is FB&Linkedin 2.0 and with Twitter Search could become Google 2.0 if it had the capital and the people to link search to people.

Hey, isn’t imitation the highest form of flattery? Perhaps facebook is making a move on twitter, but it’s meant to be romantic! Maybe they’re going to make sweet love together, while each keeping their own separate lives.

That, my friends, brings a tear to my eye. Here’s hoping!

Don’t feed the troll, me says.

Twitter is simple, Facebook is too complex. Twitter will survive.

Don’t get Twitter or Facebook hate. Like CoryS said “FB = inner circle; Twitter = public party.”
I wish there was a way to update my Facebook “What are you doing now?” feed with my Twitter feed. That way my inner circle can follow my twits with having to leave Facebook and go to Twitter. It would help both companies and add value to users of both sites. They would rule the web, hand in hand…

The best part of this thread is the photo of Mona Nomura’s ass. Damn!

p.s. Twitter has become my #1 site on the web.

Why is this assumed to be a facebook vs. twitter move? Facebook just handed it’s status functionality to twitter if they want it. So now twitter can run facebook. If twitter integrates connect, they score 150,000,000 users. Sounds like a win-win to me. Both services exist and handle their niche the best, but by playing together they can build on each others strengths.

If twitter doesn’t jump on this and take over half of facebook’s status updates, they’re stupid. Because basically facebook just told the world, “If you can manage status updates better than we can, be out guest.” And I think everyone here would agree that twitter is awesome at that. Based on facebook’s fascination with twitter, it’s possible that this API change may have been designed FOR twitter.

fewer, way fewer superlatives please, running lackey-dog

and I agree with Hugo..simple wins every time

Follow the media coverage. Myspace does not get the attention of the media like it used to. Twitter will be mainstream soon enough.

I’m 99.9999999% sure that this will NOT kill Twitter. Twitter and Facebook are two entirely different experiences.

Personally, my Facebook status updates are are for friends’ eyes only. It’s my only online profile I don’t link to on my blog, bookmarking sites, etc.

Twitter is totally public; you don’t even have to follow me to see my updates. I’ve never met most of my Twitter followers, so they probably wouldn’t care about half the things I post on my FB status.

And, like Tw, I found this post through Twitter.

I hate Facebook. I LOVE TWITTER.

Ironically, it’s the more public Twitter that allows me to better guard my privacy. Twitter doesn’t snow people with a false sense of security/privacy. Twitter doesn’t stick its nose where it doesn’t belong the way Facebook does.

The main point is that people are all twits for thinking anyone actually cares what you are doing at any point in time. Soon we’ll look back on both and wonder what we were thinking. IMHO people need to keep 99.9% of what they faceboast about to themselves.

That’s definetly a good move from Facebook. Can’t wait for the user improved real time web

the author is clearly being sensationalist.

while good, i sometimes use my twitter and facebook for different things.

facebook is becoming very microsofty in its featuritis. tons of features, but we can’t quite tell what it really does well. i’ll use it to connect with friends and as a central hub of activity, but there are a gazillion other bells and whistles that will have geeks salivating but the average user couldn’t quite care.

j.

least twitter doesn’t have 202000000 applications and where every time you open you browser you have 75 000 requests to join some or other app, or group, or this or that. FB got “over opened”, twitter is quick and easy, and why are you so obsessed with who kills who? surely this should all be in the name of technology progression?

I prefer Twitter though I can’t really say why yet

This post is a fail.
Thanks to all the commentators above that already explained why this won’t kill twitter at all.

It depends how you use both sites. For instance, I use FB for my inner circle with friends while Twitter is for business. My status updates on FB is different from Twitter because it is for two separate audience. My friends get to see what I am thinking, feeling and I share personal information with them while my Twitter followers see the business stuff and that is all I want them to see. Twitter does just that. However, this is a huge step for FB and I look forward to it.

I don’t believe Facebook and Twitter are really comparable. They both serve separate purposes. Facebook is a social networking site while Twitter is more of a micro-blogging site. I use both for separate reasons.

Hi, I dont agree with most of you. FaceBook isnt going kill twitter in any condition, I think the people who are thinking like this are not twitter users. They dont know what twitter posses.

FaceBook is totally different and Twitter got its own position.

It’s idiotic to say Twitter is going to die because of the Facebook API. The whole social structure of Twitter is far more open and fluid then Facebook. Yes the idea of status / microblogging is the same but the ability to friend & follow is completely different.

It might reduce the surge in Twitter but that’s it.

After 8 requests using facebook’s correct proceedures and 3 days i still cannot access my account, nothing dramatic but it does go to the heart of the issue, and that is that it does ot matter which you prefer if it doesn’t work. Mine was nothing dramtic simply that My old email address no longer existed and when i cleaned my computer and wiped out the password, i could not have a new one resent. This may seem trivial, however that is my entire network destroyed, gone forever, unlike an insured house you ca’t get some to rebuild it, and i certianly won’t be spending the manhours to do it again. So what you say? I Am a marketing manager for a major beverage company that had just written a plan to use facebook as a marketing medium, naturally I cannot put the advertsining dollars in the hands of someone who cannot be contacted and does not respond. To make sure I was not rushing to judgement I used the facebook business advertsing contact page to make a request for advertising, guess what? NIL response, so whatever money they should be making they are not. I guess greed is a primary factor, you cannot be a multi million dollar/billion dollar company and expect to exploit the use of Volunteer labour and get a reasonable result. So My call is that the empire is crumbling. Best of luck with crawling over the rubble. Myself I will search for a more competant internet medium for my firm and my own private use.

5 weeks later… and twitter is still alive and well…and if it is going to kill it… why is zuckenburg now following hundreds on twitter?

Honestly I legit HATE Facebook now. They’re trying to do many things to please too many people.

As stated before Twitter kills because of it’s simplicity Facebook is absolutely retarded now. There’s too much going on and hardly any way to sort through anything.

Whatever happened to the Wall being a place for comments… now it’s a stream of EVERYTHING it’s so unnecessary. I’m actually starting to like MySpace more again than Facebook.

That’s kind of sad.

This article made me laugh out loud. Why does this blog, among others, as well as facebook forget the difference of “open” versus “closed” social network. Facebook just signed its death warrant, allowing brands to spam private conversations.

It is, however, a pleasure to see a singular blogger get it just as wrong as a huge group like Facebook.

Beacon’s disaster was a blessing for FB…. this will only prove to be a long, steady, slow decline towards newer networks in light of FB having eroded it’s user’s trusts through ignorant missteps and foolhardy gambles.

You say the FB changes will kill twitter… and I think they will simply kill FB quicker.

FB made a terrible, terrible mistake.

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To say something like that there is only 1 possibility, you have never developped an application for twitter and facebook as it is a lot more better/easier to developp application for twitter.

I don’t really know what the fuzz about Facebook opening its status API is all about. For the record, it is not going to kill Twitter. Twitter is much different from Facebook, and has a user base that is different from Facebook.

facebook can’t compete because it’s entrenched in forced app spam, which a lot of people hate

the bizarre irony is that facebook supposedly doesn’t take payola from app developers, but they still insist on holding status updates hostage for app spam, like a radio station with a great play list but an intolerable amount of advertising

I guess they’re trying to generate page views and ad revenue from app usage, but I can’t stand looking at app spam, personally

thats great that you are talking about the twitter api,a good example of searching with the twitter api is on twiogle.com because you can search on twitter and google at the same time.

twitter sucks, facebook always has and always will be better. :p

Twitter will not die before facebooks opens up a lot more possibilities to create status/friend feed applications with easy tagclouds and commenting. Why use twitter if facebook offers the same? different people you follow on twitter, and that follows you - divide facebook people in to groups and make relevant status/feed public. Maybee another status message/twitter-like blog for the public on FB. dont want to be “friends” with all that follow on twitter, but would use FB if it was an option

Right now (since March) Facebook is not allowing updates to Twitter via Facebook site, although vice versa IS currently allowed.

Someone please get me back when Facebook finally comes to their senses!

Twitter is way better than Idiotbook. No drunk pictures no excess information no crap apps.
Twitter is about getting information out there (no not about you, or what you are doing. Important useful information)
Facebook is about public humiliation and embarrassment and too many worlds colliding.

wtf there lossing money they can say kill twiter all the fxck they wnt look they wnt succed cthat because facebook is fuckin lame if u have one ur old

And here I was thinking “The Long Goodbye” was just a sweet Robert Altman movie.

Bye Twitter!
Bye Twitter!
Bye Twitter!

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Still there.

Noone normal thinking men will like TWITTER assholes only))). Because its pretty stupid. So if you playing with twitter know you are asshole. Bye.. From Ukraine with love

Facebook = rocks
Twitter = bye bye

So…how did your little prediction work out? Twitter is growing faster then ever and Facebook has actually integrated its API to be used with Twitter and vise versa. FAIL!

Niether will kill either, both have there own niche, and both do what they do well, facebook does it’s true; need a complete rebuild to re-incorporate it’s functionality more methodically than it has so far, to give us an altogether better product, but without the cash flow to have it done behind the scenes I cant see it being done soon, other than in stages which at this point would just end up the same,
Twitters problems will be the upstarts that look to unsettle it, causing the sort of updating of looks and functionality that facebook has recieved, and will result in the same situation ( i relent on saying mess ).
No one killed myspace, it’s following is still massive, as no one will ever kill any social networking site whatever the level it is on as its the followers that keep a site going and as long as a website changes, people keep coming back, Who knows MySpace hasn’t got a hell of an update to roll out that incorporates both sites functionalitys in a great looking, intuative fashion and then some, we dont so its really a pointless argument..

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