Facebook today announced opening up status, notes, links and videos to facebook platform. This is consistent with their strategy of using the openness to change the game to c0mpete against established leaders. It offered facebook platform to one up myspace and now it wants to une up twitter by opening up status updates.
Some people think this will kill twitter, while some others think it will not.
What do I think? I don’t think any outside company can kill twitter. Twitter is synonymous with status updates. You don’t update your status. You twitter. I am with fred wilson that sharing status updates is big. I say twittering is big.
[...] has established a strong first mover advantage and it is going to be hard for any company to threaten its place. I don’t think facebook integrating twitter like functionality will make too much of a dent [...]
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