Same thing I said before, the merge of U Tube, Twitter and Facebook - U Twit Face!
DigitalEntity
· 5 months ago
brilliant!
Jennifer Van Grove
· 5 months ago
That's hilarious :)
sea0tter12
· 5 months ago
It was even funnier when Conan said it the first time.
shotbeak
· 5 months ago
No! Facebook should stop copying Twitter. Their strength was in it being a network for friends. It used to be about "Connecting you to the people that matter most", now its all "Giving people the power to share and make the world more open and connected." (as seen on their about page).
The days of totally new social networks are gone, so you won't see a new network claiming Facebook's "old" position. I would like one. One where its all about you, and your close friends. Like Facebook used to be.
Bluraven
· 5 months ago
I think it's important to remember that no one is forcing anyone to make use of all of these features, so that if you want Facebook to be about You and your close friends...that's entirely up to you. Just because a new service is going to be offered there, doesn't mean you have to take advantage of it.
I'm sure you (and everyone) are already aware of that, I'm only saying something about it because I think it's a good idea to make these new "Twitter-like" features available to those who want them. Personally, I relish in discovering new like-minded people as well as finding old friends.
SheilaRuth
· 5 months ago
I wish Facebook would stop trying so hard to be Twitter. I don't need another Twitter; I have Twitter for that. Facebook is a different animal, and I like it for the richness of media and the greater possibilities for interaction. Twitter provides more breadth, and Facebook more depth, and I like both. Facebook has a lot of good benefits, and I wish they would play to their strengths instead of trying to be something they're not.
amyish
· 5 months ago
I won't continue using Facebook if people can follow me without my approval! I like both Facebook and Twitter, but I use them for different things. I use Facebook to connect with family and friends and Twitter to connect to the world. I post totally different stuff on each. I especially like being able to post photos of my friends and family on Facebook, but I wouldn't do that if random, anonymous people could follow me!
Kevin Montgomery
· 5 months ago
exactly......I use them both, but am very specific in what I post. I enjoy the closed-community of Facebook, and would reconsider my involvement if this happens. Kevin
MB
· 5 months ago
I'm not very happy about this. I actually like to use FB as my private SNS tool to connect only to close friends and family. I use Twitter and LinkedIn as professional SNS tools. Having people "following" me in FB is not at all what I want in that site. The thought that status updates would also be available and searchable to the open public is also something I would very much dislike. I'm hoping there's a popular like-minded replacement for FB in the very near future. I posted on my blog about it earlier this week: www.mickeybaines.wordpress.com
Garmon Estes
· 5 months ago
Nice catch! Yep, they're definitely trying to integrate Twitter functionality.
Jamie Favreau
· 5 months ago
Facebook seems to be acting a lot like Twitter. Just there is a lot more stuff you can do with Facebook!
swinhoe
· 5 months ago
Im really keen to see them keep Facebook as a network for friends and known associates.
I wont be using a service that's just trying to copy Twitter and publish publicly.
Horses for courses.
Dave Potts
· 5 months ago
Cool. It will be interesting to see if Facebook users relay other people's status updates, though. Half of the value of Twitter (to me, anyway) is finding like-minded people through re-tweets.
@pdxmark2
· 5 months ago
Interesting... maybe this will also be a way for people who use Facebook now to "get" Twitter a little more. This, together with the "locking" of certain status updates/postings to certain friend lists, gives users a lot more flexibility. However, it also creates a lot of opportunities for users to make embarassing mistakes ("OMG, I just sent that picture to my Parents, not my Pals!").
Kevin
· 5 months ago
It'll be interesting to see how it's implemented. I'm sure there will be an initial backlash like everything else, followed by FB having to explain security features, etc. I think a simple drop down from the Share button would work well. You could let it default to sharing with everyone or just friends, etc; and have a drop down to choose otherwise.
The live feed is already a mess though, so I'm not sure how much more noise I'd want... depending on how it's rolled out, I might keep FB for people I know and Twitter for people/companies I want to know more about.
DJ
· 5 months ago
Just use Twitter!
Miranda McCurlie
· 5 months ago
I agree with DJ!
Sharon Phillips
· 5 months ago
Truly wish Facebook would try to come up with something more original.
MissBeckala
· 5 months ago
Why doesn't Facebook just steal everything from Twitter?
Jennifer Van Grove
· 5 months ago
Well essentially they are emulating everything Twitter has done...imitation is the highest form of flattery I suppose?
Bonochromatic
· 5 months ago
Because Twitter can barely handle the userload it already has; if Facebook's architecture was built the same as Twitter's it would be broken 30% of the time.
Marda-Mischa
· 5 months ago
I don't understand why Facebook has the be the same as Twitter. how original. Why can't they come up with their own ideas?
Paul Martin
· 5 months ago
It's a natural, predictable, and smart business move on the part of FB. Period.
iTbay
· 5 months ago
this will create a lot of discomfort for facebook users I think since the concept of "friends" is what drives what facebook is currently in the mind of the user and nonusers. If a guy (guy1) has a girlfriend (gf1) who is being "followed" by some other guys (guyN), guy1 may not like this to much I dont think. I guess the wording "connects to me as a fan" blurs the definition of "following" but the substance of the definition is the same. However, given the unique vanity URL's for Facebook, connecting as fans to facebook profile will increase the value of an individual's vanity URL since more traffic will be driven to one's page. All in all - I think that the definition of celebrity will be a thing of a past within the next 10 yrs as people will have the tools, as they already do & people already have become (iJustine for instance) celebrities in their own right. Becoming fans or followers of existing Facebook users was inevitable as Twitter is taking up the time that users are spending on Facebook as I discovered on mashchat (www.mashable.com/mashchat).
The way I see it is this: as I tweeted yesterday, "(twitter + google) vs facebook - substance over form. - the battle over real time search ad revenue".
PS. I find it funny how Facebook follows, outta 5 people, 3 of them are the Twitter boys @ev @jack @biz... http://twitter.com/facebook/friends - uncool + we know where they got this idea from now. Facebook is trying to hard ... relax, there is tons of good looking women you can look @ which aren't yours. Being this uncool, the only thing u can do is just look.. Like the song goes: "Hey, Facebook, leave that Twitter alone! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk6ysvCv-G0
Jessica Robertson
· 5 months ago
it's one thing for random people to follow me on twitter.... i'm much more guarded in what information i share on that platform than i am in facebook where i know the people who see what i say and share..... i think they'll lose a lot of people who are still weary about going public
I like it. This is what makes me think that Facebook will still be around a few years from now. They are willing to evaluate other's successes and incorporate them. I believe Facebookers will hold them back from making any big leaps at once, but a little at a time works.
The interesting thought is whether introducing Twitter concepts to them will drive them to Twitter or provide an alternative to becoming Twitterholics themselves.
So many networks, so many choices... thank God we have tools such as ping.fm and mashdeck to update all of them at once! LOL
Vicky
· 5 months ago
I want to keep my facebook comments for just my friends, and only my friends. I do not link these accounts ON PURPOSE. For twitter, I feel FREE to say whatever is REALLY on my mind. As for facebook, when you've got your boss, your husband, your kids, your neighbors there, you don't have the same anonymity. It's not like I disclose the nuclear codes or anything....I just like to have ONE place in my life where I can freely speak my mind without any worries of fallout. For me, twitter is raw, honest, and open. Facebook is not.
Demuxer
· 5 months ago
well done!!
Michael Bauser
· 5 months ago
First: You look horrible in green.
Second: You (and everybody else) is missing the point. A few days ago, Facebook added a "share with everyone" option to status updates, which allows people who aren't your friends to see updates. The "follow as a fan" feature is probably just going to let people follow the updates you declare public. If you don't label anything as "visible to everybody," this feature probably won't affect you at all.
If that's the way Facebook goes, they're actually doing something Twitter doesn't do: let you choose which updates are only for friends, and which are for everyone.
Demuxer
· 5 months ago
facebook is suposed to be "private & secure", but ill stay in touch.
Maybe to receive facebook statuses by not-twitter-users directly to your twitter account is a good idea
Carlos
· 5 months ago
Facebook should stick to being facebook and leave Twitter to be Twitter. Facebook forgot what made them great in the first place: The ability to connect with friends and family and share somwhat private information with them. Their current redesign, which already was an attept to become more like Twitter, didn't set to good with it's users so here they go again.
DigitalEntity
· 5 months ago
I quite like stealing your whitty remarks on twitter and then claiming them as my own on facebook ;)
Anna
· 5 months ago
I already dumped half my "friends" list because all they did was play games and send me crap. I kept the ones that posted to me, were family, local connections, and causes' admins I work with. It was so nice to see my home page cleaned up. Now you are intimating that I could have followers who, just like on Twitter, will be wanting to follow me to jack up their following...OMG. I am going to have to clean out my FB list everyday like I clean out my Twitter list everyday. NO thank you.
Redfallon
· 5 months ago
No thanks. I have mine private for a reason. If I wanted the world to see everything I did on Facebook, I wouldn't have any privacy settings.
Not news?
· 5 months ago
Facebook already has a fan function... each Facebook Page has had it for over a year now. Pretty sure that notification option refers specifically to those accounts which serve as admins for Pages.
Anita
· 5 months ago
Before new functionality like this is rolled out FB will have to introduce a new security setting in your profile that allows you to prohibit some or all users from following you.
Jessica
· 5 months ago
I really don't like this...unless I'm understanding it wrong, ANYONE can "follow" you on FB, even those you don't know? It's so much more personal than Twitter and I don't want just any stranger seeing my updates.
Content Channel
· 5 months ago
Facebook "fans" versus "friends": I think one should differenciate between the 2 FB features, as they do not seem to be happening in parallel. It depends on the type of site you have choosen on registration, if you are going to build a network of friends, or just set up a "fun-club". If one is going for the "fun club"-type of site, it's a community of fans (well,OK, it has similarities to twitter's followers) which will be built. I am sure that FB is having smth. in mind with this new feature, what that "something" will be, we are going to see. We should however not be too optimistic and expect FB to reveal it's true intentions as opposed to this new feature, until it will become popular enough amoung users to allow FB to make the next step. Does FB intend to copy twitter? Maybe, any product or service will tend to be copied hundred of times once proven to be sucsessful. Yet I believe that FB will build a bit different around this feature, and try to make it stand out of the crowd, and not just be a "copy" of something else. @jollymonday
thatdamnredhead
· 5 months ago
I don't know what else to say to this but "I really don't like this idea at all."
elia
· 5 months ago
You should put up this news. Facebook sued Ask.com for creating Facebook toolbar and using its logo. One big reason why was because Facebook has their own toolbar but it sucks and has lots of complaints from theirs users and everyone turn to Ask.com toolbar. The toolbar was called Facebook Toolbar and has changed its name to SocialMini. You guys should check it out on www.Facebooktoolbar.us !
justin
· 5 months ago
who has the most followers? i don't want it to turn into twitter!
Philip Barron
· 5 months ago
And anyone can follow you on Twitter, regardless of whether or not you follow them back.
Unless you block them, of course.
Jessica
· 5 months ago
Can't remember who said this, regarding Twitter and anyone being able to follow you, but that's not true...you can block your tweets.
Jessica
· 5 months ago
Can't remember who said this, regarding Twitter and anyone being able to follow you, but that's not true...you can block your tweets.
Luis Antezana (luckylou)
· 5 months ago
So many people are reading this news incorrectly. Fortunately there are some here (Bluraven, Michael Blauser) who actually get how this works.
You can select which of your status updates become public. You can select whether you allow people to follow you. These settings default to off. If someone follows you their news won't show in your Feed. How can anyone complain about having the option to enable this? If you don't want to use it then don't.
People say this is copying Twitter, because obviously Twitter has a follower model, but having followers is a pretty basic concept in itself. All social media involves being able to follow people. It's kind of the point, right? So why the fuss from the commenters?
Just before this was announced the big rip on Facebook was how it was building a walled world. Now the rip is that they've given us the option for some public visibility. Weren't we just asking for this?
I think it's a simple and obvious evolution for the premier social network, and I am glad to have it. While like so many others I use Facebook for personal relationships and Twitter and LinkedIn for professional, the lines do get blurry, with some people seeking to cross over, even if you hardly know them. This now gives us a way to have people connect with us through Facebook at a more arm's length distance. And as we all repeat ad nauseum, it's all about making connections and being part of the conversation, so this just furthers that goal.
As long as we're talking about Twitter....
I was thinking about whether this functionality, properly implemented and with popular participation, could completely eliminate the need for Twitter. For some people it would, and, If I'm being honest, it wouldn't be a bad thing. These are the people who use Twitter the same way as Facebook, basically just another place to announce their status updates. For these people Twitter gives them a wider audience but that's all. Updating Twitter is just more work for them. If all their followers were in Facebook they'd love it. They'd be getting the same experience within one environment, and with control over how it works.
For the rest of us who rely on Twitter for a unique purpose, we can go on using it as we already do. The profile of the user base will evolve, and that's good, too.
This is all good as far as I can see.
Melissa Chen
· 5 months ago
Facebook and Twitter serve 2 very different purposes: one is about interacting with your existing social circle online and one focuses on building new networks. Facebook's potential for the viral spread of information is negated by the likelihood that users would be gathering and sharing information to and from the SAME social circle, as that's just how people operate on Facebook.
It doesn't sound like you're getting the point of the feature. Facebook allows you to set an option to allow people you haven't friended to follow any status updates you post as publicly readable. This inherently changes the audience away from the old friend-only kind to the anyone-who's-interested kind. You've already got custom URLs, and your posts will be searchable and I'll venture in some kind of worldwide general feed, so your exposure will go way beyond your same old social circle. Properly implemented, this is no different than the way you find and read people on Twitter (although your status updates may have a different bent to them). And since they're just followers and not friends you don't have to see their updates in your Feed. I think this actually helps your privacy preferences in that you can keep a better distance between casual acquaintances who want to read you and close friends with whom you'd want to share your life's details. I don't see why you call the follower capability "total crap."
Melissa Chen
· 5 months ago
I understand the point of the feature, but I don't think it brings Facebook's users value. Such a feature makes sense on a platform like Twitter, where openness and participation in/contribution to a worldwide feed is encouraged. Users on Facebook, however, do not necessarily want to expand beyond their same old social circle, as they are accustomed to privacy and interacting just with their own friends on this particular platform. Instead, Facebook could be making better use of its time and resources by improving on features that would bring its users more value (rather than acting in its own self-interest to try to compete with Twitter)
Luis Antezana (luckylou)
· 5 months ago
The point is not about what Facebook users are used to, it's about where Facebook wants to go. FB wants to give its users the option to express themselves to whichever audience they choose. This gives them a public outlet if they want it, exactly like Twitter. I don't know how you can say you know that FB users don't want to expand beyond their social circle, but either way, this isn't expanding your social circle, this is broadcasting specified status updates to people who are not your close friends, but those who want to hear what you have to say anyway. Certain status updates are suitable for a wider audience, and I am certain there are some users who would like to have the option to broadcast wider.
Take the recent outpouring of sentiment over Michael Jackson. How many people do you think would have posted their MJ-related FB status updates to the public if they could have? Let's get more significant though. How about the Iran election controversy? How many people would have liked the ability to broadcast their pleas for support and advocacy in a more public arena? How many of these people are Twitter savvy? Can you see where this would make a difference?
Colin Christianson
· 5 months ago
Was wondering if fb would take this move. It is the only logical choice. and they have the user base to wait. This combined with Microsoft Vine is a SUPER powerful system. Implement a bit of google wave on the back end and wowieeeee! I can't wait for that system. Hello collaborative live web!
Colin Christianson
· 5 months ago
Was wondering if fb would take this move. It is the only logical choice. and they have the user base to wait. This combined with Microsoft Vine is a SUPER powerful system. Implement a bit of google wave on the back end and wowieeeee! I can't wait for that system. Hello collaborative live web!
With the downfall of myspace, this is truly going to start to get interesting, as the socials networks try to become thee "ultimate social networks"
Stephen
· 5 months ago
Two words for Facebook...Grow Up! Twitter made it's success as it's simple, it's different and the world is loving it, maybe Facebook should sit down and come up with some unique ideas not jumping on the latest bandwagon.
I'm thinking back to something I saw this morning when I sent a friend request. Instead of it saying "Friend Requested" it now says "Connection Requested." I thought it was odd at the time, but now after reading this, I seriously wonder what the heck is up.
Martin
· 5 months ago
Beauty. A stalkers wet dream. Follow you without having to get you to approve me first and without you having a clue who i am but i now know everything you do or have done or what you've at least said anyway. That's how Twitter works. If you are public it means anyone can instantly follow you. You get emailed about it later, after they read all your stuff. Oh sure, you can 'block' people on Twitter. After, they've read all you stuff.
Bruce Clay SEO Australia
· 5 months ago
I think that Twitter is getting in a really difficult situation now that Facebook is about to release publicly the publisher bar "everyone" feature combined with the "fan" feature. What will happen to the users who have an account on both if Facebook provides exactly the same services than Twitter? Will these users consolidate their Twitter account on Facebook?
dmosse@gmail.com
· 4 months ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but that option IS NOT available in my account! I wish it was!
Bruce Clay SEO Australia
· 4 months ago
Yes, because only a few users have been selected to test these new features. Same for facebook search.
All Comments
The days of totally new social networks are gone, so you won't see a new network claiming Facebook's "old" position. I would like one. One where its all about you, and your close friends. Like Facebook used to be.
I'm sure you (and everyone) are already aware of that, I'm only saying something about it because I think it's a good idea to make these new "Twitter-like" features available to those who want them. Personally, I relish in discovering new like-minded people as well as finding old friends.
Kevin
I wont be using a service that's just trying to copy Twitter and publish publicly.
Horses for courses.
The live feed is already a mess though, so I'm not sure how much more noise I'd want... depending on how it's rolled out, I might keep FB for people I know and Twitter for people/companies I want to know more about.
The way I see it is this: as I tweeted yesterday, "(twitter + google) vs facebook - substance over form. - the battle over real time search ad revenue".
PS. I find it funny how Facebook follows, outta 5 people, 3 of them are the Twitter boys @ev @jack @biz... http://twitter.com/facebook/friends - uncool + we know where they got this idea from now. Facebook is trying to hard ... relax, there is tons of good looking women you can look @ which aren't yours. Being this uncool, the only thing u can do is just look.. Like the song goes: "Hey, Facebook, leave that Twitter alone! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk6ysvCv-G0
The interesting thought is whether introducing Twitter concepts to them will drive them to Twitter or provide an alternative to becoming Twitterholics themselves.
www.Speakin-Up.com
Second: You (and everybody else) is missing the point. A few days ago, Facebook added a "share with everyone" option to status updates, which allows people who aren't your friends to see updates. The "follow as a fan" feature is probably just going to let people follow the updates you declare public. If you don't label anything as "visible to everybody," this feature probably won't affect you at all.
If that's the way Facebook goes, they're actually doing something Twitter doesn't do: let you choose which updates are only for friends, and which are for everyone.
Maybe to receive facebook statuses by not-twitter-users directly to your twitter account is a good idea
@jollymonday
Unless you block them, of course.
You can select which of your status updates become public.
You can select whether you allow people to follow you.
These settings default to off.
If someone follows you their news won't show in your Feed.
How can anyone complain about having the option to enable this? If you don't want to use it then don't.
People say this is copying Twitter, because obviously Twitter has a follower model, but having followers is a pretty basic concept in itself. All social media involves being able to follow people. It's kind of the point, right? So why the fuss from the commenters?
Just before this was announced the big rip on Facebook was how it was building a walled world. Now the rip is that they've given us the option for some public visibility. Weren't we just asking for this?
I think it's a simple and obvious evolution for the premier social network, and I am glad to have it. While like so many others I use Facebook for personal relationships and Twitter and LinkedIn for professional, the lines do get blurry, with some people seeking to cross over, even if you hardly know them. This now gives us a way to have people connect with us through Facebook at a more arm's length distance. And as we all repeat ad nauseum, it's all about making connections and being part of the conversation, so this just furthers that goal.
As long as we're talking about Twitter....
I was thinking about whether this functionality, properly implemented and with popular participation, could completely eliminate the need for Twitter. For some people it would, and,
If I'm being honest, it wouldn't be a bad thing. These are the people who use Twitter the same way as Facebook, basically just another place to announce their status updates. For these people Twitter gives them a wider audience but that's all. Updating Twitter is just more work for them. If all their followers were in Facebook they'd love it. They'd be getting the same experience within one environment, and with control over how it works.
For the rest of us who rely on Twitter for a unique purpose, we can go on using it as we already do. The profile of the user base will evolve, and that's good, too.
This is all good as far as I can see.
I just posted on our blog "Why Facebook's New Fan Model Is Total Crap", would leave to hear everyone's thoughts on this:
http://adammetz.com/metzmash/why-facebooks-new-...
Take the recent outpouring of sentiment over Michael Jackson. How many people do you think would have posted their MJ-related FB status updates to the public if they could have? Let's get more significant though. How about the Iran election controversy? How many people would have liked the ability to broadcast their pleas for support and advocacy in a more public arena? How many of these people are Twitter savvy? Can you see where this would make a difference?
http://itechmo.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/can-fac...
www.fliptexteffects.com