Facebook: We’re Not Scared of Twitter. Really. See?

August 25th, 2009 admin

We’ve all heard about how Twitter is putting the squeeze on Facebook – Twitter’s real-time capabilities put Facebook’s to shame, and the world’s largest social network seems to be pushing more and more of their features in the general direction of Twitter. Their recent acquisition of FriendFeed was…


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