So it’s been happening for a while now, Whether you’ve noticed or not. Facebook is slowly turning Twitter like.
At the moment Twitter isn’t that much of a real threat to Facebook, However Facebook don’t seem to think this and today rolled out phase four of their slow but steady attack on twitter. A while back now Facebook re-designed again and became more ‘real time’. They introduced an auto refreshing status box, Just like twitter does. Some might say that usernames is just like twitter, but I wouldn’t go that far, sites like Bebo and MySpace have been doing the whole /imbobsmith thing for years.Today we’ve seen phase 3 of the attack, Facebook now has the ability to search public status updates. Again much like twitter!
Next week will see the introduction of the everyone button, I’m presuming this will go hand in hand with the new usernames system. Just like twitter, you put someones twitter address in and all their information is there in the public. However Facebook is the opposite. Facebook has 27 different separate settings just for the main Facebook content, Add to that app privacy and there’s a whole lot more. Most users just leave them as they are but now this new everyone button will do the same as twitter does. Think of it as standing in the middle of your city center in your bath robe!
Apparently the new settings will have a private profile and you will be able to set certain links, status updates and photos publicly on your ‘HEY LOOK AT MY LINKS’ profile. Whether or not people will make there content public is up to them, but we shall see. Whats to come in phase 5? A suspicious looking bird shaped in the form of a letter f?
