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image thumb49 Facebook Integrates A Pointless Change: Divides Updates Into Status, Ask A Question, Photos And Links

In its latest frenzy to personalize and get more popular with its users, Facebook has finally rolled out Questions. What good is it? Primarily worth nothing, simply gives a new word or phrase to the status updates and ensures maximum user participation, the idea simply put is about divide and better engage users of the social network.

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image thumb46 And Now The Like Button On Comments As Well: Go Facebook Go! [meh!]

Then the Liking gets viral, the Like button should be everywhere. Don’t get it? Well Facebook has extended the feature to user comments as well meaning that now you will be able to Like comments on the social networking site as well. More likes, more promotions and even more flooded news feed.

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image thumb44 Twitter: From Fail Whale To Blank Timelines…

What exactly is happening with Twitter? I have been ignoring the troubles with it for almost a week now, given the number of fail whales with the micromessaging service and random account logins. But today after facing some downtime earlier and coming back it appears to have reset all tweets.

Well obviously one should be glad that the site is working fine enough and letting users place updates but it is quite astonishing to see it removing the number of tweets of many users. The warning was given by Twitter regarding the maintenance and that its users will be seeing removal of tweets as well as an empty timeline on their profiles.  From Twitter’s status blog:

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I find this pretty interesting, discovering tools and apps to help Facebook experience better. We have talked about numerous tools already, which include Firefox add-ons to make uploading/downloading photos and videos easy to Silverlight Desktop client to have the best Facebook experience outside the browser. Today I will be talking about useful tools to update statuses on Facebook. Hope you will find them useful and do give us your feedback about these.

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