Facebook Vs Twitter, Who Will Win The Real Time War? Latest : Facebook Now Allows Username To Be Change

Right from the starting of this year facebook (more info) is nervous about Twitter (more info). First it unsuccessfully tried to buy twitter, then redesigned the profile page to look more like twitter, then rolled out vanity URL, added an “Every one button”, and all this will facilitate what? It helps improve their real time search! Facebook is trying too hard to be like Twitter. Today comes one more addition to the list – Facebook now allows you to change your username in the URL, but only once. When facebook rolled out vanity URL last month it specifically stated “choose wisely” because you cannot change it. After the Twitter documents leaked out we learnt that even Twitter considers facebook as the biggest thread and that it fears that facebook will keep copying its functionalities. Facebook can never be like Twitter. It is a social network and social network are meant to have a layer of privacy. That layer will not let facebook jump too high in the real time search arena unless facebook forgets why it is facebook. But allowing one time user name change is good! I am done.