There have been a few articles posted about the new Facebook functionality where your friends are able to view your subscriptions and subscriptionees (is that a word?). I first noticed this on a friend's page randomly, and curious I clicked on his "subscriptions"; to my surprise, and probably to him as well when he notices it, there were quite a number of subscriptions to women's pages that were not celebrities and not his fiancee, but thats another story ...
On the surface, this sounds alarmingly similar to Twitter, so it begs the question: what will happen to Twitter? I have always found it difficult to grasp the purpose of Twitter, as I find it strange to follow someone's updates w/o the added frills of pictures/notes/their friend's comments/etc (all the added functionality of Facebook). Now that Facebook offers a very similar service in obvious contention with Twitter's service niche (whatever that may be), will Twitter be edged out of the market as it offers no other additional services? Or will Twitter evolve into something totally unexpected and be able to withstand the competition?
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