Blue Helm

Posted by Emory Cook on September 15th, 2009

I suspect those denizens at Twitter are shaking their fists and cursing the Facebook gods right about now. Twitter’s new niche in the social media world is rapidly losing its novelty thanks to the cool features Facebook ‘borrows’ from the little blue bird.

The newest Twitteresque highlight (by the way, I’m obsessed with making up words that have ‘Twitter’ in them) on Facebook is that you can now use the @ symbol to imprint a link on your status update to another friend’s profile.

For instance, instead of merely typing Chad Mustard is a goober in my status update box, I should now include an @ symbol just before I type his name and Facebook will allow me to choose his profile from a dropdown box. A link to his wall is then automatically included in my update and he is notified via email. So if one of my other Facebook friends wonders who Chad Mustard is and why he’s a goober, this person can click on his name within my status update and visit his profile. His gooberness will be perceptible almost immediately.

But it’s not just individual profiles you can now link up to your status updates. You can do the same with pages, events and groups. Just include the @ symbol before any name you type and a box will appear allowing you to choose who or what you want to link to.

So take that Twitterites! Your puny Twittersphere is losing power each day. Why would Facebook users want to switch to the Twitterverse if they can find all its features on a site they’re already familiar with? It’s a Twittastrophe!

Wow. I’ll stop now.

Tags: Emory, facebook, features, Social Media, twitter

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