Facebook Takes on Twitter/ Twitter Now Offers Advertising!

There has been alot going on in the world of Facebook. Facebook has announced that it has redesigned itself to be more like Twitter. Since the Facebook lost the bid to purchase Twitter it has decided to redesign itself. some of the changes allow users to share their info with an unlimited number of friends. These updates can "be brief messages" according to Facebook. Facebook has now become direct competition with Twitter. Analyst Caroline Dangson stated "By adding this now, though, Facebook is taking Twitter on directly. They realize if they have these real-time streams, then people will spend more time on Facebook. If people can do it all on Facebook, they just might decide to do so. Suddenly, they don't have to go to Twitter." In January Facebook reached its 150 million active user mark.

Twitter has announced that it will be providing advertising on its sites. A new platform will allow text ads to be embedded within twitter posts. These posts will only appear on the most popular tweets. Adjix founder Joe Moreno stated that "This new ad format will be a great way for Twitter users to earn additional revenue, and its unobtrusive format won't annoy recipients, like some other Twitter ad programmes."