Friday March 06, 2009 17:08
“So if Twitter is not a threat to Google, is it a threat to Facebook? That case is more straightforward. As Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg wrote this week, one of the social-networking site’s main goals is to let people “share immediate experiences with one another: a thought, a status, a photo, a note, a feeling.” But Twitter is a faster, purer, less rule-bound way to share all that stuff. With Twitter, you just sign up and type—you don’t need to build a profile or worry about whom to friend and reject. (By default, Twitter lets anyone follow your updates; on Facebook, generally two people must agree that they’re friends before they can share notes.) And Twitter is fast, displaying what people in your network are up to as soon as they press send. Facebook, until now, has been a bit slower—the site shows you new updates from your friends only every few minutes or so, not instantly.”
— Farhad’s redeeming himself from whatever the hell that piece on Gmail was a few weeks back. The above is precisely why Twitter is the only explicitly social network I participate in. Basically the Web 2.0 equivalent of Gruber’s Untitled Document Syndrome. (Quoted from Twitter’s not a Google killer. It’s not a Facebook killer, either. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine)
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