Tweeted out: How Facebook killed that little bluebird

by Sean Roberts, Alestle photographer

Sean Roberts

A once mostly redundant social networking site is now completely redundant.

With Facebook around, people must have wondered what exactly the point of Twitter was. After all, Facebook provided most of the functionality of Twitter already, plus a lot more.  The only thing lacking from Facebook was tagging people with an “@” and searching. Facebook has now added those features.

Why would I ever want to use Twitter? I already have all of the functionality of Twitter with a much more rich and diverse social networking site I am already part of.

Twitter has reached its necessary end. Most individuals have no need for a Twitter.  Those who actually continue to use it are either news services that can gain some benefit from the Twitter service, or stragglers who just like the old, but redundant system. With a few small tweaks, Facebook will not just be equal to Twitter, but far surpass it. Hopefully, when that day comes, Twitter will be seen as redundant.

After all, why tweet about your new underwear purchase when you can update your Facebook status to a much larger and more embarrassing audience of friends?