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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. Twitter Testing Facebook-Like Profile Wall by omar.sahal · · Score: 3, Informative

    a Facebook-Like message wall

    Doesn't mean a thing to me, I use twitter!

  2. "Understandability to Interact" by retroworks · · Score: 2

    According to the article: "The understandability to interact has always been an issue on Twitter for new users — this hopefully will solve the problem."

    Well, there you go. Couldn't have said it any better.

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  3. Convergent evolution by Arancaytar · · Score: 2

    Apparently, Twitter and Google have decided that in order to beat Facebook they must become Facebook.

    I hope that they stop short of imitating its attitude to user privacy.

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

    This could have saved Anthony Wiener a lot of trouble.

  5. Who actually uses Twtter.com though?? by brunes69 · · Score: 2

    Twitter is not like facebook. The incredible majority of Tweets are not sent and recieved via Twitter.com, they are done via standalone apps.

    I am a pretty heavy twitter user, but unless they are somehow going to implement this "wall" in API form and allow my SilverBird extension to access it, I will never even know it exists.

    1. Re:Who actually uses Twtter.com though?? by dakameleon · · Score: 2

      (1) Twitter.com is the biggest single client for interaction with Twitter: http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/15/report-use-of-third-party-twitter-clients-dwindles-to-42-percent/

      (2) It's not a "wall" in the sense that TFS/TFA makes it out to be, it's just a quick way to do an @reply to the user whose profile you're looking at. Many Twitter clients already have a "reply to this user" button to achieve the same thing.

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  6. 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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