Facebook Becomes More Like Twitter In Layout As Well As Openness

By Rajiv Dingra • March 18, 2009

In just months of its first revamp Facebook has gone ahead and revamped its look again. This time the revamp seems heavily inspired by social media rival Twitter. While twitter asks What are you doing now? Facebook’s new layout asks the question Whats on your mind?.

Check out the new facebook layout below:

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The general feedback across the web (especially twitter) has been negative to the new layout. It also shows that facebook acknowlegdes twitters success even though the number of users for twitter is just 10 million as compared to facebook’s 200 million. There were rumours late last year that Facebook had pitched to buy twitter in a 500 Million all stock deal but was rebuffed by the micro blogging player.

Facebook seems to have taken that rejection to heart and looks like its all out to provide a twitter like interface to all of its 200 million users. It has also included an option of open profile to everyone. This again seems inspired by twitter as twitter feeds can be viewed by anyone via twitter.com/username Check watblog’s twitter feed and mine here.

All in all it does seem like facebook is trying to compete with twitter by offering the same value to its users. Given the current feedback it seems like the users aren’t too happy with the twitterized facebook look. Only time will tell though as to how this move by facebook pans out. If you ask me I think its just going to help garner more users for twitter as people would be more open to the idea of microblogging after they get a taste of the same at facebook. Whats your take?

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Tags: facebook, facebook privacy, facebook revamp, Features, Twitter, twitter vs facebook

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Rajiv Dingra

Rajiv is a prolific blogger who has over 1000 blog posts to his credit at WATBlog. The Founder & CEO of WATMedia our parent company and the Chief Blogger at WATBlog, he has been the driving force of the WAT Evolution. Rajiv does some excellent analysis of the digital media industry in India and often brings out deep insights with his inimitable style of interviewing. Just mail rajiv|at|watblog|dot|com and it will reach him..

One Response to “ Facebook Becomes More Like Twitter In Layout As Well As Openness ”

ajitesh Mar 19th, 2009 at 9:10 am

I am not sure if FaceBook could really makeup for their lost Twitter acquisition as twitter is evolving, innovating and moving faster. Their is a buzz that twitter is evolving as nextgen search tool. I would be damned if FaceBook follows it in that direction too. That will be like trying to multiple things.

All said, Twitter must innovate to stay in the game and as per my observation, they are right on track.! . Take a look at their OAuth support.

cheers!