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Facebook Shows a Glimpse of Twitterness

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Update: Facebook Lite is available in the US and India now. It can be found at
Facebook Lite has been compared to Twitter and FriendFeed, due to its simplicity. This was probably particularly interesting to those users who experienced it, since

Yes, it does look quite similar to Twitter. Nicholas Carlson at Silicon Alley Insider makes a good point in that even if Facebook isn't really going this direction, it still highlights the fact that at its core Facebook isn't all that different from Twitter. Sure, it has some more bells and whistles, but at the end of the day, it's main functions are very similar.

Who knows though? Twitter has a while to go before it reaches Facebook status, but if one day Twitter were to surpass Facebook in users, Facebook could conceivably go for something more like Facebook Lite. As noted, Facebook has done a variety of things that made it
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