Why Facebook will never be Twitter

How about this:

Facebook allows users to designate a status message as 'public.'

Public status updates have a unique RSS feed.

Friends commenting on a public status update receive a popup notice giving them the choice to make it public or private.

Comments made by not-yet-friends would obviously be public.

This gives Facebook users the ability to make updates public if they choose, and it allows for threaded comments, which Twitter still can't do.

This is absolutely right.Twitter is for letting friends and followers know stuff about you..what you are thinking off and oll that. Facebook is for keeping in touch. Both are overstepping their boundaries.

Privacy is the reason FB won't be like twitter, and it is also the reason it could submarine. Frankly, twitter has a better chance of building up their network, than FB building "down" so to speak.... you can't trumpet and engage privacy concerns then try and take them away. Closed network means dead network..... I am not saying it won't be around, but myspace, tribe.net, and asmallworld.net know what it is like to lose critical mass.

http://www.hrabaconsulting.com/blog/2009/04/09/facebook-all-atwitter/

that might be interesting... a more long winded, rambly, and less perfunctory version of your article. =) haha... I am a bit verbose at times.

Closed networks have a habit of becoming more closed, stiffling creativity. Twitter accelerates open networking encouraging APP development to further augment platform usability.
Your article is on target!

Good post -- I agree with you on this. In a similar vein, I recently wrote about why it's bad business for Facebook to go so hard after Twitter:

http://www.elezea.com/2009/08/why-facebook-should-forget-about-twitter/

I've got 5 reasons for you:

http://constructivegrumpiness.squarespace.com/home/2009/9/10/5-reasons-facebook-lite-wont-hurt-twitter.html

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at least Facebook isn't down all the time, I get server overload messages way too much on Twitter

I think it's dead-on but missing another key point: culture and behavior.

Twitter already has a network built (in the social sense). Facebook has a ton of users, maybe even the same celebrities, but the culture is already built around twitter. And that momentum isn't likely to slow anytime soon.

Facebook should fix their app problem. It's out of hand, and their responses have been too complex.

Facebook is just too much, I'm a total programmer nerd online 24/7 and it took me a couple weeks to figure everything out, and that's just stupid. My mom is on facebook, and that's who it should be geared toward.

It doesn't matter which privacy features they add in, it's far easier to go to twitter for public and facebook for private. Think about one of the nice things about facebook: going to facebook.com drops you off at your personal page instead of a public homepage. It would have been just as easy for everyone to bookmark my.facebook.com but psychologically they made it a private, self-centric experience.

That's why none of us just stayed with blogger to begin with!

Why over techno jargon this to death unless you're just showing off? Plain and simple, FB is for connecting with people and Twitter is for going public. Much of the FB population have no interest in Twitter because they're not trying to promote something, they're trying to have online relationships with people and reconnect.

A small percentage of Twitter users actually have something to say, and those users already have / will soon make a synced Facebook Fan Page, which is public and integrates with their Fans' newsfeeds.

So which of these is more likely to happen:

- The 300 million Facebook users who want to hear from these few relevant people/businesses become Fans and automatically have their posts appear in their Facebook feeds with cool features like integrated videos and photos. [eg, check out who's on the Daily Show tonight! Click play right here]

- Twitter will get 250 million+ new users who actually use it.

I haven't gotten any useful information from anyone on Twitter. It's a waste of time.

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