Facebook attacks Twitter, forgets major component
There's a major component missing in Facebook's plan to seemingly take a bite out of Twitter's rising stardom. This major flaw is smack in the middle of their own logic, the essence of Facebook's platform. You see, Facebook is broken up into what I call contextual networks (friends, region, city, business, university). It's a closed off network, visible only to accepted friends. This understanding of connectivity is upside down to Twitter.
Specifically, your applications can now directly access all of a user's status, links, and notes via new methods and FQL calls. Your application will have access to any status, notes, or links from the active user or their friends that are currently visible to the active user.
Twitter is an open network. I can follow someone's tweets even if they're not following me. This allows for massive network growth through associated one-to-many relationships. It's a different beast, and if Facebook thinks it can play ball, it should definitely think to bring the right requipment to the game.
