Facebook targets Twitter

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Over the past five years, Facebook has evolved to make sharing information more efficient and to give people more control. This year, we are going to continue making the flow of information even faster and more customized to those you want to connect and communicate with, no matter how broadly or privately. To give you a framework for how we’re thinking about these upcoming changes, it’s important to understand how Facebook has developed and where we’re heading. – from Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook

The Facebook homepage is changing again, this time to allow users to see constant updates from their contacts. The refresh should stop the firm losing users to the increasingly popular Twitter. At a press conference on Wednesday, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said that he admired the micro-blogging site because it can connect with people so quickly. – from vnunet