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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 ichverstehe »

ojbyrne wrote: post #8
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.

I have close to zero overlap between my Facebook status and Twitter updates. It's just two different social circles, if you will.

Re: Facebook Opens Status API, Say Goodbye to Twitter

#12

Post by ojbyrne »

ichverstehe wrote: post #11
ojbyrne wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I have close to zero overlap between my Facebook status and Twitter updates. It's just two different social circles, if you will.

Me too, until I hooked up the twitter app to facebook. Then I stopped bothering with the facebook social circle, at least for status updates.

Re: Facebook Opens Status API, Say Goodbye to Twitter

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Post by albertsun »

Facebook is mostly used for actual friends (well more than Twitter) and limited to real life relationships. That's true at least for the core demographic of college students. Twitter is much more about networking with new people.

So despite having similar or close to identical functionality technically, they have very different functions.

Re: Facebook Opens Status API, Say Goodbye to Twitter

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Post by TrevorJ »

Eh, I see a lot of professional-networking promotion going on on Twitter, and FB has always been geared more towards personal connections, I think this may impact some of the userbase, but it's not a death knell. Given that it's trivial to sync your Twitter and Facebook statuses anyway, I don't see many users outright switching.

Re: Facebook Opens Status API, Say Goodbye to Twitter

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Post by atourino »

nx wrote: post #3

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

Not only that, but more importantly, on Twitter you can follow pretty much whoever you like without a required acknowledgment from the followed person/organization. To be friends with someone in FB, both parties have to agree, which pretty much sets them apart niche-wise.
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