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Facebook Opens Status API, Say Goodbye to Twitter

40 points by jmorin007 18y ago

unalone 18y ago
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.
nx 18y ago
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 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=418151
- atourino 18y ago
  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.
  - ivey 18y ago
    Twitter's asymmetric follow is one of the killer features. GitHub has it, as well...maybe if GitHub had a status API they could be a Twitter killer.
raghus 18y ago
Just because X has Y's functionality now doesn't imply that X will overtake/kill/get people to say goodbye to Y
biznickman 18y ago
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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nreece 18y ago
Now, is there a proxy service yet that let's you post your Twitter updates to Facebook and vice versa?
- ojbyrne 18y ago
  Not sure about the vice versa, but there's a twitter app for facebook. I pretty well stopped using facebook once I found it.
  - ichverstehe 18y ago
    I have close to zero overlap between my Facebook status and Twitter updates. It's just two different social circles, if you will.
    - ojbyrne 18y ago
      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.
- michaelneale 18y ago
  FriendFeed will kind of do that for you - of course another social network is probably not the answer you wanted !
- timcederman 18y ago
  Twitter app for Facebook does it both ways.
- tptacek 18y ago
  I did this for a couple days and turned it off. My Twitter feed is very noisy, and looks retarded to the 30% of my Facebook contacts who don't live their lives in front of LCD screens.
wernerv0nbraun 18y ago
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
albertsun 18y ago
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.
baddox 18y ago
The other article said it would kill Twitter overnight. I'll check back in the morning.
sutro 18y ago
Reddit Supports Site Header Color Customization, Say Goodbye to Hacker News.
- dpeq 18y ago
  allfacebooknews.com != alltwitternews.com Uh-oh, that's not taken yet - domainpidgeon, where are you?
TrevorJ 18y ago
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.
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TweedHeads 18y ago
Wait, coming from Allfacebook? sure must be true...
dhimes 18y ago
Well, I just tried to sign up for FB and failed in every attempt. I allow session cookies, and that's what their privacy policy says they only use. So they are excluding at least some of their potential market.
tptacek 18y ago
This doesn't even make sense. Twitter is a broadcast medium. Facebook isn't.
larrywright 18y ago
People claiming that technology X will kill technology Y should most certainly make an attempt at understanding what technology Y is first. This person clearly does not.

40 points by jmorin007 18y ago

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.

nx 18y ago

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 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=418151

atourino 18y ago
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.
- ivey 18y ago
  Twitter's asymmetric follow is one of the killer features. GitHub has it, as well...maybe if GitHub had a status API they could be a Twitter killer.

raghus 18y ago

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

biznickman 18y ago

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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nreece 18y ago

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

ojbyrne 18y ago
Not sure about the vice versa, but there's a twitter app for facebook. I pretty well stopped using facebook once I found it.
- ichverstehe 18y ago
  I have close to zero overlap between my Facebook status and Twitter updates. It's just two different social circles, if you will.
  - ojbyrne 18y ago
    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.
michaelneale 18y ago
FriendFeed will kind of do that for you - of course another social network is probably not the answer you wanted !
timcederman 18y ago
Twitter app for Facebook does it both ways.
tptacek 18y ago
I did this for a couple days and turned it off. My Twitter feed is very noisy, and looks retarded to the 30% of my Facebook contacts who don't live their lives in front of LCD screens.

wernerv0nbraun 18y ago

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

albertsun 18y ago

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.

baddox 18y ago

The other article said it would kill Twitter overnight. I'll check back in the morning.

sutro 18y ago

Reddit Supports Site Header Color Customization, Say Goodbye to Hacker News.

dpeq 18y ago
allfacebooknews.com != alltwitternews.com Uh-oh, that's not taken yet - domainpidgeon, where are you?

TrevorJ 18y ago

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.

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TweedHeads 18y ago

Wait, coming from Allfacebook? sure must be true...

dhimes 18y ago

Well, I just tried to sign up for FB and failed in every attempt. I allow session cookies, and that's what their privacy policy says they only use. So they are excluding at least some of their potential market.

tptacek 18y ago

This doesn't even make sense. Twitter is a broadcast medium. Facebook isn't.

larrywright 18y ago

People claiming that technology X will kill technology Y should most certainly make an attempt at understanding what technology Y is first. This person clearly does not.