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> The original Facebook didn't have a status to update; that didn't come until around late 2007 or early 2008 It wasn't that late. At early as 2005, there was
by andrewksl 10y ago
> The original Facebook didn't have a status to update; that didn't come until around late 2007 or early 2008
It wasn't that late. At early as 2005, there was a form with the prompt "John Doe is:" and you had to squeeze whatever thoughts you needed your friends to know into that format.
- rco8786 10y agoNo way. When they launched the status feature they got all kinds of crap for copying twitter, which launched in 2006.
- karmelapple 10y agoCorrect. April 20, 2007, appears to be the date according to http://www.jonloomer.com/2012/05/06/history-of-facebook-changes/ http://www.jonloomer.com/2012/05/06/history-of-facebook-chan...
- nommm-nommm 10y ago2005? Nope and no and no way in hell. First of all, mini-feed launched in Sep, 2006, according to a TechCrunch post from that time. That was the real time Facebook started to be anything near what it is today, and certainly well before status updates. I first noticed people using status updates in March 2008, how do I know month and year, you ask? because there was serious shit going on on my life at the time. And I remember reading "X is blah blah blah" for the first time while I was going through my shit. It was new enough to notice. I'll conceed that the "status feature" may have existed a year before I really noticed it, so we are still at early 2007 two years earlier than 2005. I also do recall the criticism of "you're copying Twitter" as a sibling posted. I remember using the brand new Facebook chat about April or May 2008, FWIW.