Some of you might remember last may when Facebook attempted to by Twitter for $500 million dollars in Facebook employee stock. Well, Facebook is obviously paying closer attention to twitter than a lot of us thought, apparently Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg has setup his own public twitter profile.
Apparently he has had his own private profile for a while now but only recently launched the public profile. I really like Facebook in terms of social networking and marketing value for my clients but here’s the thing, I am not for sure why people would associate the two as being competitors? Both are social networks yes, but they provide a totally different service and value to the web in my opinion. Here’s an article about Zuckerburg’s twitter account:
Zuckerberg, who has had a private profile on the site since last May, has now launched a public profile, which has already attracted more than 9,200 followers.
Facebook famously tried to buy Twitter last year for around $500 million in stock. But Peter Thiel, a director at Facebook and an investor in the social networking site, said that it soon became “pretty clear” a deal would not be done. It is thought the two companies disagreed on the price and the future structure of the company.
Zuckerberg has been a long-time admirer of the microblogging service. Last week, he announced changes to the Facebook home page that included real-time status updates, bringing the social networking site more in line with Twitter’s constant stream of tweets. He said that organisations such as MySpace and Twitter were “companies we admire”.
Facebook has also removed the 5,000-friend limit it has imposed on users, and has pledged to make the site more open, with people able to build acquaintance networks in the same way they can on Twitter without having to actually open their profiles up to followers.
Mark Zuckerberg is not yet following Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey or Biz Stone, the co-founders of Twitter, on his public profile, but is connected to them on his private Twitter feed.
Facebook founder joins Twitter – Telegraph
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