> Facebook does what Twitter does (status updates), and does it better, IMO. Twitter actually does it better -- but, because Twitter doesn't do anything else,

> Facebook does what Twitter does (status updates), and does it better, IMO. Twitter actually does it better -- but, because Twitter doesn't do anything else, everything on Twitter goes into the "status update" interface, which results in severe clutter. In short, Twitter's status update functionality is better, but the social effects on it are damaging enough to make Facebook actually better suited to status updating in practice. It's sort of an academic quibble, I guess, but sometimes those are the most fun.