Facebook and Twitter: There's Blood Everywhere, but No One's Dying

February 9, 2009 at 12:01 am PT

Here we go again. Over the course of the last several months, we’ve heard that FriendFeed was going to kill Twitter. Then Twitter was going to kill FriendFeed. Then Facebook was going to kill FriendFeed. Now Facebook is going to kill Twitter. But something odd is happening. Instead of any of them dying, they’re all thriving, each gaining traffic and users–and they’ll continue to. So what gives?

I hate to reuse my twisting of the catchphrase from the old Highlander films, but I feel compelled to remind everyone once again: There can be more than one.

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Tagged with: Facebook, FriendFeed, Highlander, MG Siegler, traffic, Twitter, users, Venture Beat

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