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I guess I'm confused why it seems Facebook wants to compete with Twitter in this regard. I don't think fb users have asked for the option to publish their infor

• unalone 17y ago
  I'm confused why people think Facebook is trying to compete with Twitter. It's simply moving in a similar direction, and taking a few of Twitter's ideas that work for its social graph. Does anybody remember Facebook's original feed, which was the first controversial invention of theirs? Even back then they were working on categorizing and indexing everybody's social goings-on. The fact that Twitter does something similar doesn't make Facebook a competitor. I use both Twitter and Facebook's public search, and Facebook's has a much different feel about it than Twitter's does. It feels more to me like fb is moving more toward "make something we can sell" than "make something people want." I don't like the "make something people want" meme. It's too bend-over for me to approve of. But Facebook's not making something they can sell. Public search isn't any more profitable than what they're already doing, which has put them in the green. Rather, they're focusing on making what they want. I'm certain their motives are more selfish than money: From the beginning, Mark and kin's focus has been on studying the patterns of how people interact, and Facebook's design has consistently reflected that. They're not doing that for money, they're doing it because that's what their goal is.