Comments on: Facebook Shows "What's On Its Mind" – Twitter

By: ZuDfunck

ZuDfunck — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:00:54 +0000

Help me not to see Twitter as the death knell to Blogging!

By: Steen Seo Öhman

Steen Seo Öhman — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:58:58 +0000

Twitter is, as far as I see it, more informal than Facebook.

It's easy to get a lot of followers on Twitter and this is increasing the number of post and interactions with other people. Twitter could therefore show to be much better suited for marketing, as the viral effects are much stronger.

By: Bertil Hatt

Bertil Hatt — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:29:13 +0000

Twitter proved certain elements are important: thoughts are dime a dozen to (interesting) actions, and that technology allowed faster updates; they also went into mobile. I’m surprised that people criticise Facebook for taking clues. I doubt they’ll imitate other essential features, like the openness and the simplicity of the service — so differentiation doesn’t seem too much of an issue. But you can’t blame Facebook for trying: 200 millions for what was a disfunctionnal services weeks ago that they not copied but inspired, two-way applications; they did their due-diligence so far.

By: TrackerMo

TrackerMo — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:03:57 +0000

Twitter is the flavor of the week... the real question is, what will Google be looking at next week?

By: John M.

John M. — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:57:18 +0000

What ought to be on Twitter's mind is 'real people'.

Facebook is going to end up being a much better platform for real time search because the data is going to be coming from real people.

By: Patrick OMalley

Patrick OMalley — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:37:50 +0000

Some may have come from Twitter, but some is also obvious. What Twitter and Facebook both need is a way for me to see posts that people think are good (by vote, which is what the Facebook status "Like" function is probably for) and skip the boring ones if I don't have time.

Pat O'Malley

By: nmw

nmw — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:10:39 +0000

Twitter should be obsessed with the Wisdom of the Language ( http://gaggle.info/miscellaneous/articles/wisdom-of-the-language ).

Among the 4 companies you mention (Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Twitter), the only one paying a significant amount of attention to the Wisdom of the Language is Google: The Chrome browser is designed to track all of the websites that people type into the browsers URL bar (and knowing Google's huge interest in making tons of money from advertising it probably won't be long before Google starts pushing ads into Chome's URL / Location / Navigation bar).

By: Dante Monteverde

Dante Monteverde — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:53:25 +0000

If Microsoft wants to compete they should just buy Facebook now while it’s relatively inexpensive. Meanwhile Twitter should sell to Google now before a site like Facebook makes them absolute.

By: Jan Simmonds

Jan Simmonds — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:50:01 +0000

The smart move would be to obsess itself with Microsoft and square the circle…