Sunday 13 September 2009

Memory like a pot with hols and a Facebook attempt at Twitter

The last week or so of events have been tough on the old top hat, memory is a little frazzled from late nights and featuring on a Channel 5 police show; when we nearly got arrested for postering around brick lane for my house mates exhibition which starts next week, RealrecogniseReal will be one to watch if your into illustration and other lovely art stuff. Anyways I remember reading about two and a half weeks ago about Facebooks attempt at stealing Tweeters!

The name itself leaves nothing to the imagination, it has no creative flare, no new aspects, just facebook but the "essentials," so really it is for the people that have yet to discover twitter properly. Or "don't have time" for Facebook.

Unfortunately it will do well, the reason facebook is more successful than twitter is three fold:
  • It was first
  • It offers more
And...
  • It services most peoples needs for social media
Twitter is great because of all the other stuff that comes through twitter. Facebook lite will hook the Facebookers that have a need for something like twitter but are scared of adoption and not wanting to find out about another site, when FB does what they need.

It is a sad time for social media, I am a fan of twitter, but unfortunately and slight hypocritically I am never on their enough.

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