New Facebook: Twitter + FriendFeed + 175 million users
When Facebook made an offer to buy Twitter back in November, it seems pretty clear it was interested in the real time stream of information that the service excels in. That deal fell through, but Facebook is moving ahead with the real time information aspect anyway.
A new update to the Facebook homepage will further refine the stream of information that is being displayed to users. This change, rolling out on March 11, will display changes to Facebook at or near real time in the stream (right now it cycles every few minutes). And perhaps more importantly, the new homepage will feature better filters to handle the huge data influx that is likely to flow.
There will also be a new "Highlights" feature will will slow the live stream down and focus on the information that you define as being really important to you. This along with the filters reminds me of two things that the service FriendFeed has been working on perfecting.
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