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What If Facebook Jumped in Against Twitter?
- niftich 10y agoFacebook 'Pages' are a rough analogue to Twitter personas [1]. Anyone can create a 'Page' with an arbitrary name, and which can be followed, interacted with, and be used to make public posts. But Facebook should figure out if they want the cake, or if they want to eat it, because they can't have it both ways. In the early days, public posts on Facebook were actually public, and viewable by anyone without needing to (or being begged to) log in to Facebook. But they changed this behavior sometime in or after 2012 [2], and now nothing that is generated by personal profiles is ever fully-public, and only 'Pages' have the ability to produce content that's viewable-without-login. A good example of this latter is John Carmack's posts (of Oculus), which albeit publicly viewable in theory, present a nag-bar overlay asking the user to log into Facebook [3]. [1] https://www.facebook.com/help/104002523024878 https://www.facebook.com/help/104002523024878 [2] http://blog.streamingmedia.com/2012/10/public-facebook-pages-no-longer-viewable-unless-you-have-a-facebook-account.html http://blog.streamingmedia.com/2012/10/public-facebook-pages... [3] https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1818885715012604&id=100006735798590 https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1818885715...