Facebook is a social applications host, Google is a webservices suite, Microsoft makes OS and software... Twitter is a great service because it's independent. It's a community that loves the only service provided : it's Facebook's "is" and nothing more.
This status can be updated with anything, broadcasted on everything, read by everything... It's a service that doesn't need a ton of other services to work. Without last saturday night pictures, without suggested friends, without planned events, Twitter is still Twitter, while Facebook's "is" would be just Twitter. Buying Twitter, Facebook would create a conflict between the two status services and would merge them, Twitter's "@" messages would disappear...
For a independent Twitter, put your hand up in the air o/
This status can be updated with anything, broadcasted on everything, read by everything... It's a service that doesn't need a ton of other services to work. Without last saturday night pictures, without suggested friends, without planned events, Twitter is still Twitter, while Facebook's "is" would be just Twitter. Buying Twitter, Facebook would create a conflict between the two status services and would merge them, Twitter's "@" messages would disappear...
For a independent Twitter, put your hand up in the air o/