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Re: BREAKING: Facebook Introduces @Mentions in Status Updates

CollegiateLiving — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:12:46 -0000

Not too shabby...although a little late possibly. I feel like Twitter is the new Google and Facebook is the Yahoo/Bing.

Re: BREAKING: Facebook Introduces @Mentions in Status Updates

Sukardi — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:30:50 -0000

it's not work at facebook lite, doesn't it???

Re: BREAKING: Facebook Introduces @Mentions in Status Updates

She*1NA*M!11!0N — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:27:14 -0000

I must say that this did not work!

Re: BREAKING: Facebook Introduces @Mentions in Status Updates

kinderis — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:35:41 -0000

Well I use Twitter and Facebook and I am very satisfied with it. I think that every website has its own advantages and disadvantages. Well I have to admit that I always use @ on Twitter and it is very comfortable for me :) Heh it is really interesting to see "the fight" between Twitter and Facebook. We see who will win. Thanks a lot for the great article and I will be waiting for other great information from you!

Sincerely,

Daniel Materson from software development company

Re: BREAKING: Facebook Introduces @Mentions in Status Updates

Lovereg — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:26:44 -0000

How about in Facebook for Iphone? I cant tag anyone in my status

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ALEX03089@GMAIL.COM — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:53:38 -0000

YOU SHOULD ADD TRENDING TOPICS TO FACEBOOK!

Re: BREAKING: Facebook Introduces @Mentions in Status Updates

Binku — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:13:48 -0000

Facebook should be Facebook, not tweetbook. Let Twitter be their own way. Facebook wants to be only one popular social network. What rude!

Re: BREAKING: Facebook Introduces @Mentions in Status Updates

Batman — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 03:13:31 -0000

I didn't say they were alike, I'm simply making an observation that you haven't yet fully refuted..... Or, am I to understand that I'm not communicating when I use Facebook, and my network on Twitter isn't social? So, I reject that statement totally, which produced your other logic flaws. I will agree that Twitter is a gobal chatroom, and they do that very well.

Re: BREAKING: Facebook Introduces @Mentions in Status Updates

Clement — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:08:45 -0000

The beauty of @ symbols in Twitter is that you can reference another user. Unless that user blocks themselves, you're able to view that user's timeline and basic information. FB, with the way everyone is locking down their privacy settings, means you'll be able to see a name for people that you have not friended, and that's about it. Value, at least initially, I think is negligible. But that's just my opinion.

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none ya — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:37:57 -0000

okay well i tryed to do the @ symbol thing and it didnt work so what do i do now???

Re: BREAKING: Facebook Introduces @Mentions in Status Updates

Name — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:51:27 -0000

I think this is pathetic

Re: BREAKING: Facebook Introduces @Mentions in Status Updates

jeffhammond001 — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:42:37 -0000

I don;t see it as a rivarly so much as Frenemies! @reply in Facebook--like the recent FriendFeed incorporation--appears to be another indication that one-trick service ponies like Twitter are, indeed, merely features masquerading as standalone applications. The aggregating services, like FB, are where IMs, Tweets, blogs, eMail, Vid and image posting services will ultimately end up, all running on standardized, cloud-based infrastructure imho. That's all good.

Re: BREAKING: Facebook Introduces @Mentions in Status Updates

Joshua Hatfield — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:57:52 -0000

Twitter is micro-blogging & communicating / Facebook is social networking.

Stop with the comparing. They are nothing alike. Twitter would have very little applicable use if there were no third party applications.

Don't get the wrong idea, Twitter created a paradigm shift, but they didn't invent anything. The took an idea and compacted it. It's command line email in a nutshell.

Re: BREAKING: Facebook Introduces @Mentions in Status Updates

Jehnee — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:22:34 -0000

imitation is the best form of flattery.

Re: BREAKING: Facebook Introduces @Mentions in Status Updates

WisTex — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:56:16 -0000

I use both, and Twitter updates my Facebook status. So both I would think.

Re: BREAKING: Facebook Introduces @Mentions in Status Updates

WisTex — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:50:07 -0000

What is interesting though, Twitter did not invent the @username either. Twitter's users did, and Twitter implemented it as an official feature since its users were doing it anyway. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n_EitPb7BU&feat...

Re: BREAKING: Facebook Introduces @Mentions in Status Updates

Brown Mommy — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:05:26 -0000

A dropdown menu of hundreds of friends and other connections that many people have will not be convenient or easily navigable, which is the point of dropdowns.

I go to Twitter for public convos, FB for more private ones. That is how I want it; I prefer that people do not tag me and my business with them for their FB world to see.

Tom O., please include a setting where we can prevent others from tagging us. Thanks and good luck.

Re: BREAKING: Facebook Introduces @Mentions in Status Updates

Adam — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:48:39 -0000

I hope Facebook wins. Twitter's got the real-time social news piece, but ultimately it's a novelty service. I have trouble reading tweets because they're like a strange code of special characters like @, #, and short urls which are never informative. Facebook transforms each status update into a legible & context-specific unit by using image thumbnails, website titles & descriptions, and threaded comments. Just as Facebook's photo tagging has been a huge success, I'm extremely excited about Facebook's upcoming use of tagged status updates especially because they're not going to be showing the @ sign! Less visual clutter makes it easier to read, period.

Re: BREAKING: Facebook Introduces @Mentions in Status Updates

Adam — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:35:49 -0000

Lame & immature.

Re: BREAKING: Facebook Introduces @Mentions in Status Updates

Lcbigpants — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:16:26 -0000

I use the @ in Facebook when I'm replying to someone who's commented on my status. Already there!

Re: BREAKING: Facebook Introduces @Mentions in Status Updates

Dustin — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:44:30 -0000

We have Facebook applications that post tweets to our status, but now we need one that allows us to map an @ name to a Facebook friend so it gets translated when posted.

Re: BREAKING: Facebook Introduces @Mentions in Status Updates

Donagh Mc Sweeney — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:51:47 -0000

Does Twitter not have any sort of patent on it's features?

Re: BREAKING: Facebook Introduces @Mentions in Status Updates

KMxRetro — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:27:38 -0000

But its BREAKING!!! IT HAS TO BE KNOWN NOW! (Apparently.)

Re: BREAKING: Facebook Introduces @Mentions in Status Updates

Chris — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:52:06 -0000

Wow, that will be irritating for those who use Twitter to update their FB status but have different usernames on the two sites.

Re: BREAKING: Facebook Introduces @Mentions in Status Updates

DanielEssex — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:35:54 -0000

@Elizabeth:
Spam is correct, it's done via a drop-down list that appears when you use the @ symbol (as helpfully detailed in the article above these very comments)