“Open Status” to the rescue?
Facebook’s latest attempt to keep up with twitter now allows developers to access their “Status” API stream. However this of course comes with a caveat, Facebook users must OPT in to allow developers to access this data. No doubt Facebook wants marketers/advertisers to begin using this technology and possibly create pages to rival twitters “search.twitter.com” hash tag function, but will this ever be possible while Facebook attempts to keep users privacy right one of their top priorities?
Facebook Open Status API
Is this in fact the fundamental flaw in Facebooks current push to push brands? In order to truly make money, they must sacrifice their users privacy rights, but if that does happen, look for users to begin running back to MySpace? (Now that it is under the helm of former Facebook top executive Owen Van Natta)
It should be interesting to see how the Facebook vs. Twitter battle continues to play out, both companies continue to make moves to gain traction within the social sphere.
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