Pathetic once again from Zuckerberg and crew One of Twitter’s strongest features is the @reply, where you can direct a message to someone else on Twitter by typing @ and then their username. Facebook, which is trying to emulate some of Twitter’s best features, doesn’t have anything similar in the News Feed. In short, it’s not easy to have a public conversation.
Very soon, that will no longer be the case. Facebook just introduced the ability to tag your friends in status updates. What makes this really interesting though is how you tag people: Using the @ symbol. Facebook has just turned on their own version of Twitter’s @Mentions feature that will be rolled out over the next few weeks.
And oh boy...it now works
The @ symbol now works just like Twitter, and not just for users, but for groups and fan pages as well.
Facebook has just stepped deep into Twitter’s territory. How long until you can see your @reply history? We’re betting not very long at all.
They might as well call themselves Twitter.
Pathetic once again from Zuckerberg and crew 
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