Facebook Status Update is already 90% of Twitter, with 100,000x the reach
July 16th, 2007 | by danny |Twitter is all the rage among the bloggerati, but it’s hard to imagine the service taking off in any massively meaningful fashion. The Facebook Status Update captures most of Twitter’s appeal, executed within an even simpler feature.
Facebook already has integrated mobile support, RSS support, preference setting, etc. There isn’t much left that’s both important and missing at this point. And it’s also tough to envision how a Twitter plug-in could really supplant the well-ingrained status update.
The question begged by this line of thought is this - can leading-edge communication apps like Twitter create enough unique value to carve out meaningful niches in the social networking sphere? If the Facebook platform executes well, then it will become significantly harder to do so. Ultimately, my guess is that media services (Flixster, iLike, Slide) now look like better investment vehicles at this point because they add value to the social graph, rather than trying to replicate it.
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