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Twitter Testing Facebook-Like Profile Wall

Posted by samzenpus on from the imitation-is-the-highest-form-of-flattery dept.

Mightee writes "Twitter is experimenting with a Facebook-Like message wall to its users' profile pages, that will allow twitter users to send '@ replies or mentions' directly from their profile. The change is apparently coming in order to enhance conversation between tweeters. According to Official Twitter Spokeswoman: 'Twitter is testing the feature with a small percentage of users. It was designed to "make it easier for users to engage with each other" on the microblogging service.'"

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  1. Easier User-to-User Communication? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This could have saved Anthony Wiener a lot of trouble.

  2. Why use Twitter in English? by Baloo+Uriza · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why use Twitter in any language that uses an alphabet (as opposed to a syllabary like Cherokee or ideograms like Japanese and Chinese)? It's barely possible to have a cogent thought in 140 characters, much less have anything resembling intelligent metadata in addition to that.

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