Facebook and Twitter: There’s blood everywhere, but no one is dying
Here we go again. Over the course of the last several months, we’ve heard that FriendFeed was going to kill Twitter. Then Twitter was going to kill FriendFeed. Then Facebook was going to kill FriendFeed. Now Facebook is going to kill Twitter. But something odd is happening. Instead of any of them dying, they’re all thriving, each gaining traffic and users - and they’ll continue to. So what gives?
I hate to reuse my twisting of the catch phrase from the old Highlander films, but I feel compelled to remind everyone once again: There can be more than one.
Everyone is all worked up about Facebook killing Twitter now because it opened its application programming interfaces (APIs) a bit more to allow for status updates from Facebook to be passed through to other sites. This is an especially sexy claim to make right now because Facebook made an offer to buy Twitter back in November, which Twitter turned down.
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