Facebook Opens Status API, Say Goodbye to Twitter

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Post by jmorin007 » Sat, Feb 07, 2009, 2:07 AM UTC

Facebook Opens Status API, Say Goodbye to Twitter
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Re: Facebook Opens Status API, Say Goodbye to Twitter

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Post by unalone » Sat, Feb 07, 2009, 2:15 AM UTC

Nick O'Neill has bid Twitter farewell at least once a month for the past two years. First when Facebook let you change status via phone. Then when Twitter and Facebook integrated via apps. Now it's because of an API. Twitter hasn't disappeared yet.

Re: Facebook Opens Status API, Say Goodbye to Twitter

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Post by nx » Sat, Feb 07, 2009, 2:47 AM UTC

We've been through this before! I'll just quote myself from a month ago:

Facebook: full-fledged social network. Twitter: simple, quick-posting environment.

There IS a big difference between these two sites, Facebook won't kill twitter, we can all go to sleep calmly now :)

Edit: just for reference, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=418151

Re: Facebook Opens Status API, Say Goodbye to Twitter

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Post by raghus » Sat, Feb 07, 2009, 2:52 AM UTC

Just because X has Y's functionality now doesn't imply that X will overtake/kill/get people to say goodbye to Y

Re: Facebook Opens Status API, Say Goodbye to Twitter

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Post by biznickman » Sat, Feb 07, 2009, 2:55 AM UTC

Hey guys, I know I've said it before but honestly I think this has a serious chance of removing Twitter. I'll put my money where my mouth is ... I'm working on programming another version of Twitter using just the Facebook API ... we'll see if it makes sense :)

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Feb 07, 2009, 2:58 AM UTC

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Post by nreece » Sat, Feb 07, 2009, 3:00 AM UTC

Now, is there a proxy service yet that let's you post your Twitter updates to Facebook and vice versa?

Re: Facebook Opens Status API, Say Goodbye to Twitter

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Post by ojbyrne » Sat, Feb 07, 2009, 3:31 AM UTC

nreece wrote: post #7

Now, is there a proxy service yet that let's you post your Twitter updates to Facebook and vice versa?

Not sure about the vice versa, but there's a twitter app for facebook. I pretty well stopped using facebook once I found it.

Re: Facebook Opens Status API, Say Goodbye to Twitter

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Post by wernerv0nbraun » Sat, Feb 07, 2009, 3:38 AM UTC

twitter will live because it has cachet with a certain (growing) group of users who likely see facebook as passe now that gramma is on it

Re: Facebook Opens Status API, Say Goodbye to Twitter

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Post by michaelneale » Sat, Feb 07, 2009, 4:10 AM UTC

nreece wrote: post #7

Now, is there a proxy service yet that let's you post your Twitter updates to Facebook and vice versa?

FriendFeed will kind of do that for you - of course another social network is probably not the answer you wanted !