Facebook to Kill Twitter? Don’t think so.

Just finished reading an article over on AllFacebook about how the author thinks that Facebook is about to kill Twitter due to the fact the API has been expanded to make it easier to set a users status from an Application.  There’s a big difference between Twitter and Facebook in the way that people use them that the author seems to fail to grasp.  Facebook is a closed circle app where in order to see a persons updates you need to be there friend.  You’re forced into two way communication.  With Twitter I can follow people who are of interest to me and others can follow me if I’m tweeting stuff of interest to them.  We don’t have to be friends.  We don’t have to be bombarded by each others content if we don’t want to.  Twitter facilitates one way communication in a way that Facebook doesn’t and probably never will.

And if Facebook thought they were about to kill off would they have offered $500m for it?