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Facebook adds @mentions to status updates.
- mgrouchy 17y agowell that is a clear shot across the bow of twitter. I wonder if twitter has any response for this?
- notaddicted 17y agoThey could add an extened profile page, photo album storage tagging and sharing, an event RSVP system, and then get all my friends to sign up. I don't think that will happen.
- judofyr 17y agoI guess they will continue being Twitter, where following involves one click and (in 95% of the cases) not to worry about privacy.
- jonknee 17y agoI've long wondered why twitter doesn't do an auto complete for @mentions. Usernames are often hard to remember which makes the updates tedious to create. Nice work on FaceBook's part.
- joepestro 17y agoAgree. Tweetdeck does this.
- jlintz 17y agoI'm pretty positive when it first started out it did. I'm sure it was too much stress on their already crippled infrastructure and the feature was disabled
- jeremyawon 17y agoevery render of a users homepage has a list of "following" names, so the client shouldn't need to go to the server for auto-completion?
- MicahWedemeyer 17y agoFacebook kills Twitter, and now RSS can rest in peace, knowing that its murder has been avenged. http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009/05/05/rest-in-peace-rss/ http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009/05/05/rest-in-peace-rss/ </sarcasm>
- joubert 17y agoBut Twitter is for public verbal diarrhea , FB is for shouting amongst your friends / acquaintances.
- Zev 17y agoYou can mark your account as private on Twitter, if you like.
- chadgeidel 17y agoBut you can't do the opposite... I believe this is the point the GP was making.
- Skeuomorph 17y agoSure you can. Set status permission to "Everyone". Facebook introduced the feature here: http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=98499677130 http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=98499677130
- zach 17y agoBut on Twitter, that seems like a step towards outright account deletion.
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoNone of my twitter contacts are on my FB.
- Devilboy 17y agoFacebook allows public verbal diarrhea too now
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- msluyter 17y agoI've almost entirely moved to using Facebook status updates instead of Twitter anyway. Allowing photos and auto-previewed links and being able directly see responses seems much nicer to me.
- gehant 17y agoFacebook is copying Twitter's syntax...if anything it shows that Facebook is playing catch-up. Twitter's advantage is still very distinct: public, compact thought streams that can be easily sliced and diced. So why is Twitter in trouble? Facebook has semi-public, disparate data that is difficult to parse
- madebylaw 17y agoTwitter is in trouble because a website with more features (photo albums, apps, blah blah) and a larger community has been consistently adding all of twitter's 'killer' features to their own site. Question: What's to stop facebook from adding public status updates or any other distinct twitter feature? Answer: nothing.
- unalone 17y agoPublic status updates were already introduced.
- gehant 17y agoWhat's to stop facebook... Their users - they expect privacy. Facebook, like its predecessors, is a walled garden.
- TrevorJ 17y agoAnd blogs had 'more features' than Twitter too, but as they have proven, artificial constraints can make something popular. The minimalism is pretty much the point.
- unalone 17y agoCan't a site copy another site without it being an attempt to destroy that site? Facebook and Twitter are used very differently, and it would take a lot of backpedaling for Facebook to begin to usurp Twitter's userbase—which is doesn't have to, since the average Twitter user has a Facebook account.
- unalone 17y agoAnybody else not seeing this yet? I'm wondering if it's not fully rolled-out or if I'm just doing it wrong.
- tocomment 17y agoThis isn't working for me. Why do I never get the cool facebook features :-(
- chanux 17y agoEveryone wants to be twitter.