Earlier, I was reading how Facebook almost bought out Twitter. I know I’ve seen some people adamantly proclaim ‘Facebook is not Twitter’. Sure, but have you looked at the two side by side? Facebook is organized tweets. That said, I’m still not quite sure how it makes sense for Facebook to acquire Twitter, except that they can expand their already-established advertising network to another venue.
Otherwise, it seems a bit random for one social network to acquire something they already have. It makes even less sense when you look at how poorly run Twitter is. It seems like everytime I go to check on twitter, it’s broken in some way or another (like right now). Not that my preferred micro-blogging tool is perfect, but at least identi.ca is open-source, and that counts for quite a bit. I’ve also never seen it completely down like Twitter is right now, and it integrates nicely with Facebook status updates. Just in case you’re totally hooked on Twitter, Identi.ca even will cross-post to Twitter as well.