Twitter is becoming Facebook, and Facebook is becoming Twitter? Twitter just announced the launch of its newly redesigned interface, which makes the service a lot more similar to Facebook. Offering brand pages, Twitter account profiles resembling those on Facebook, and the photo and video sharing that the site introduced a few months ago can now be inserted among the other feeds (much like Facebook’s Newsfeed?) http://mashable.com/2011/12/08/new-twitter-facebook/
Facebook, just also announced that it has released the subscribe button, a feature which allows users to follow public posts, much like Twitter. http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/08/subscribe-button-twitter/
Of course, the new features on both sites are not exactly an exact replica of each other's features, as ultimately both platforms engage the user in different ways, and as such are probably used for very different purposes. However, it seems apparent that at the moment neither site is able to come up with anything really innovative, and would rather just repackage whatever features their competitor’s already offer.
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