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.

Why kill the Classic?

As many of you know Apple's September 9th event is tomorrow and will probably feature some refinements to Apple TV and the iMac's. One known fact is that they will update the iPod lineup to a more sexy lineup of music listening devices. The iPod touch rumored to have a camera, and the nano with more abilities and memory as well. But what about the Classic? Rumors have it that Apple will "kill" the Classic and move away from one of the original iPod designs since 2001 when they were first released. I say, " Don't kill the Classic" because 

1. It will start moving the defintion of iPod's to a more mobile device with more features like an iPhone rather than it's original intention of music.

2. It's the Classic, it was the first iPod ever built and it will make the old fashion mac or apple fanboy's upset that Apple will move away from the revolutionary product that it is.

3. What is wrong with the Classic? It has the capacity to hold 30,000 songs and 150 hours of video, which is nearly four times the capacity of the 32 gig iPod Touch.

So here's my point, for all you iPod users and new iPod users, if you love music and love watching movies and TV shows, why would you get rid of the one product that does that the best?

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