Why Facebook Subscriptions Won't Mean Anything for Twitter

On Wednesday Facebook dubbed their new “subcription” based service. A basic summary can easily be said as that this is the equivalent of Twitter’s “follow” functionality. Instead of augmenting someone to your already magnifying Facebook friends list, you can simply add them to your subscriptions and have their posts show up in your feed.

With the new added functionality of being able to add people to your subscription, much recent contemplation of various social media users have come out that we might see a downfall in Twitter usage. My reply simply put is no.

The main added benefit this brings to the Facebook table is the ability to be more closer to people you don’t actually know. Ashon Kutcher, Lady Gaga, and unfortunately Justin Bieber can be apparent examples of people that might see the most substantial outcome of all of this. But the main complication for me is that last time I checked Facebook already allowed for this type of functionality. Popular and heavy users of the platform 97% of the time already have a Facebook “fan” page.

The only convenience I can see here is the fact that the nuisance FarmVille updates will be inherent in this situation. The day of finally having a clean Facebook feed is upon us, but the day that we will see Twitter plumpet to the bottom is not upon us. Twitter is in the same trouble that it has always been in.

For Google+ converts like me that don’t use Facebook anymore, this does not convince at least me to make a the switch back. But granted, I think criticizing might not be the proper thing to do as this very well can be just to keep with high competition.