Facebook Gets Performance Anxiety, Again

In it's fairly-successful quest to be the "all things to all people" social network, Facebook gets bent when they are upstaged by another service. As Twitter was surging with the energy of having helped report the start of a revolution, Facebook started experimenting with a Twitter-like real-time public search. Of course, the blog detailing the change used the Iranian Election as an example:

 

This is is the web page version of "look ma, no handlebars" - the oldest son getting jealous when the baby does something cute. 

Facebook could be a good general replacement for Flickr and Youtube, but I don't think they'll be killing Twitter, simply because Twitter isn't an incredibly in-depth service with hundreds of privacy options. It's open, easy, and you don't even need an account to read it.

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