Facebook kills Twitter, and now RSS can rest in peace, knowing that its murder has been avenged.<p><a href="http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009/05/05/rest-in-peace-rss/" rel="nofollow">http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009/05/05/rest-in-peace-rss/</a><p></sarcasm>
I've long wondered why twitter doesn't do an auto complete for @mentions. Usernames are often hard to remember which makes the updates tedious to create. Nice work on FaceBook's part.
I've almost entirely moved to using Facebook status updates instead of Twitter anyway. Allowing photos and auto-previewed links and being able directly see responses seems much nicer to me.
Facebook is copying Twitter's syntax...if anything it shows that Facebook is playing catch-up.<p>Twitter's advantage is still very distinct: public, compact thought streams that can be easily sliced and diced.<p>So why is Twitter in trouble? Facebook has semi-public, disparate data that is difficult to parse