January 03, 2009

How Facebook Could Kill Twitter Overnight

It's not true, for a dozen reasons (Twitter's locked-in community, less openness etc.) But worth thinking about.

1 comment:

Scribe said...

The biggest difference between the 2 is something I'm noticing more - Twitter users are often not Facebook users. Twitter users like simplicity - status updates are our "world" (in a single context) and we're quite happy with that. No games, no photos, no friends from the past. Loose links. Random strangers. Disposable chat.

The question I have for 2009 is whether decentralised microblogging can take off, i.e. become a "service" rather than a privatised site, like e-mail is.