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Comments on: Oh, dear, here come the 'Facebook to buy Twitter' rumors

Web 2.0 conference organizer John Battelle decides to mess with everyone's head by suggesting Twitter is "just a feature" and perhaps Facebook could consider acquiring it.

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by aaronmclay November 6, 2008 3:52 PM PST
While this may be just a rumor I would welcome it. Spreading out my social community like this is killing me. However, I wouldn't want to see a loss of what Twitter brings to the new media community. It's the best RSS/news reader out there ;-).
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by andrew.mager November 6, 2008 4:50 PM PST
I hope it happens.
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by jumpjetta November 6, 2008 5:12 PM PST
Really, I wouldn't mind if most of *Facebook* went away and became lean like Twitter.
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by kyleshank November 6, 2008 5:22 PM PST
what if facebook just started making more of their content public? right now, everything is kept behind closed door. present a public page for user updates and you have a twitter bigger than twitter.
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by LunaticSX November 6, 2008 8:30 PM PST
Better integration would be nice: My Twitter posts update my Facebook status, but then I get replies on both Twitter and Facebook.

I'd rather see Twitter stay separate, though, with just better connections.
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by rumford November 7, 2008 1:54 AM PST
I wrote about facebook possibly buying twitter a few weeks back. ;)

Cheers!

http://facereviews.com/2008/09/25/facebook-to-buy-twitter-not-likely
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