The other night, Facebook Nick O'Neill at AllFacebook: Get ready for streaming Facebook status tools galore. Just over one month ago I suggested that opening up that status API would be the first step toward Facebook killing Twitter. Now we will see if this really has as large of an effect as I claimed it would.
Will Not Kill Twitter.
Mike Butcher at TechCrunch UK has an interesting
3. Facebook's business model is predicated on them owning your social graph.
4. @replies on Twitter are almost always public
He of course thinks Twitter will "thrive" as a result of Facebook's move:
"A lot of people use services that automatically pipe in their Twitter updates to their Facebook status (which again, leads to a lot of messages that make no sense), but now you should be able to do it the other way round, too. And that will actually get me using Facebook status updates more, because I will use it if I’m going to say what I’m actually doing and let it get sent back to Twitter. But I’ll continue to use Twitter for the other micro things I want to say."
By the way, as Malik also points out, the Status API wasn't the only thing Facebook announced. Developers now have access to things like Facebook video and notes as well.
As for Facebook killing Twitter, the suggestions that it will seem to be more in the form of questions. The suggestions that it won't seem to be more in the form of answers. And the answer seems to be no
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