Comments on: Do Facebook Vanity URLs Equal Kill Twitter Vol. 2?

By: Do Facebook Vanity URLs Equals Kill Twitter Vol. 2? | Disinformation

Do Facebook Vanity URLs Equals Kill Twitter Vol. 2? | Disinformation — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:55:24 +0000

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Social Networks — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:53:35 +0000

[...] using the @ symbol, which closely resembles the “@ reply” function popular on Twitter (We predicted Facebook would make this move back in June.) The social network also said it was open sourcing Tornado, the web server framework that powers [...]

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Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:52:37 +0000

i dont think at this moment. #1 I have a facebook page for one of my businesses (chloregy.com) and I can't for the life of me figure out how to get facebook.com/chloregy for this group/page or whatever it's called. it won't let you change the name so we are stuck with a group name that includes a description, so when we (if we) start using facebook significantly and promote it we will need to create a brand new set of pages from scratch...

i'm only 30, and i don't claim to be an expert at anything, but some of this FB stuff looks like it was designed by an 18 year old with no real world experience and no user acceptance...

i use twitter to keep a list of the most interesting articles on chloregy.com, it's business oriented, people join just so they can get a "news wire" of what I think is important..... facebook for the most part will be a personal network with some minor business overlap still for some time to come. many of the people on FB i know are in totally different worlds then i am in. eventually the static from having 500+ friends like i see some people having will be a dead weight on that system...

at that point u become a filter source of information

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Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:03:18 +0000

Never thought of Twitter and Facebook as competitors

By: MySpace New Email Looks Better Than Facebook Messaging

MySpace New Email Looks Better Than Facebook Messaging — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:42:27 +0000

[...] do on Facebook. MySpace users who have already vanity URL (a feature Facebook just incorporated last month) have an email address reserved for them in the format: [...]

By: Elene

Elene — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:44:15 +0000

This is a good way to quickly access your friend’s Facebook or your own account. The URL is going to be very useful. I have no idea what you are talking about with “Facebook is blindly following failed Twitter.” Tell me your reasons or examples that Twitter is failing.

By: mark kolb

mark kolb — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:22:23 +0000

If you missed out getting your FB vanity name, get a .TEL instead @ http://www.mytel.me with your name at a cool domain.

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Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:35:58 +0000

[...] all, much like Facebook, Twitter offers the virality so vital to a social network, a name space and thumbnails, a communication channel for messages and notifications, and a simple API for [...]

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Can Twitter Become the New Casual Gaming Hub? « Tech Eruption — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:38:46 +0000

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:45:07 +0000

Hey that is pretty much everyone around us ;-) (Kidding)

By: Syuhada

Syuhada — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:41:39 +0000

Albert, I totally agree with you

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Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:09:22 +0000

[...] the Facebook team will likely spend a little while trying to catch up on lost sleep. But Om Malik writes, "A friend of mine today speculated that it is only a matter of time before Facebook [...]

By: christine harrison

christine harrison — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:43:37 +0000

I think Facebook needs to be really careful here. Customization, in my opinion, is part of why myspace stopped working for users. The uniform profile and home page appearance makes it faster for people to browse and interact.

In addition, Facebook was built on networks; people finding eachother through a common thread. Usernames being optional is fine, but like Twitter, Facebook should err on the side of caution and keep it simple.

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Top Posts « WordPress.com — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:27:14 +0000

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Facebook Username Grab Generated Record Traffic Levels | Blog Free Now — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:09:29 +0000

By: Andrew Holt

Andrew Holt — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:57:27 +0000

As long as Facebook requires mutual relationships, it won't directly compete with Twitter. I have started removing friends from Facebook because I'm tired of seeing updates from people I don't really know that well, or find very interesting. Twitter and Facebook still seem to me to be very different communications mediums.

Additionally, since Facebook allows wall posts and comments, is there any real advantage is a status update sent to someone directly? It's already implemented in some manner.