Before I start rambling, I'd like to start off by saying that I never really got into the whole microblogging scene. I tried, time and time again, but it just never kept me interested for very long. Maybe that's why one day I went as far as getting down on my knees and begged God for microblogging to go away so that I wouldn't have to keep hearing about the latest Twitter outage from all my favourite news sites. As time went by though, I quickly realized that Twitter, and microblogging in general, was here to stay. That's why today you're seeing me post my first ever microblogging-related story, and as much as I find the whole ongoing development very interesting, it will probably be my last.
So why do I say that Facebook could kill off Twitter? Well, because it had microblogging before Twitter was a baby (yeah, I know, Twitter still is a damn baby). You can argue day and night that wall-to-wall posts aren't mini blog posts, but you can't deny that Status Updates are exactly what Twitter has been doing from the very start. Think about it. Status Updates = Tweets. Don't believe me? Well, there is one difference between the two, and this is really the key to microblogging's success. On Twitter, you can follow anyone you would like, without their approval. Facebook just won't let you do that.
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