Stephen Wellman thinks that Facebook could to kill Twitter.
If Facebook could talk, I’m pretty sure it’d be quoting Michael Jackson (”I think I told you, I’m a lover not a fighter“). One of the reasons Facebook is enjoying so much success is that it enables other services more than it squashes them.
I keep saying that Facebook is a platform. If you route your tweets through Facebook, your twitter audience grows dramatically.
If you try to use Facebook status updates to replace twitter, you lose some key functionality (past tweets for example - there’s no such thing as a permalink to an old facebook status).
More and more I find that I use Facebook as a conduit to other things - the value I gain from checking their site five times per day is in its ability to point me to new and interesting things. People have usually posted new links, left new comments, new tweets, iLiked new stuff, and the list goes on…
For a closed system, Facebook sure points outward a lot. It’s an enabler, not a killer.
Thanks Tinu for posting the link.
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