I may be wrong and going out on a limb by saying this… but I just don’t see Facebook’s @reply killing off Twitter anytime soon. There are a couple reasons for this rational.
1. Different services serve different audience and purposes.
Facebook is mainly for my close 50ish circle of friends and then the 100 plus people I would call my second outer circle of acquiescence. I admittedly use to have way more but like I do a couple times a year, I cut people I don’t communicate with in anyway, shape or form. I’m down to 153 people and my noise to signal ration is pretty good right now. I can catch up with everyone within my two spheres of friends without feeling like I missed out on anything. This includes friends that are traveling the globe right now for work, school and pleasure. Twitter is for friends but also a wider circle outside of my 150+ people and I can manage that a lot more on Twitter then Facebook because I know I won’t catch everyone and everything…. no one can and that’s ok.
2. Increasing noise to signal ratio
This is really the key piece that I don’t see this new feature on Facebook killing off Twitter. Most people I know don’t want to have a high signal to noise ratio. If there were all @Reply all the people they knew on Facebook and added all the same people they have on Twitter to Facebook… we would be in a world where time spent on Facebook would drop off because people couldn’t manage all that noise going through their homepage.
Conclusion
Twitter and Facebook are both really great services and are part of my daily social sphere. However, they serve different purposes and audiences for me and a lot of people on the web. Neither are going anywhere right now and they won’t until a services comes along that unseats the position they have gained by providing a similar but really different service to it’s users.
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