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How Twitter Took-on Facebook's Zuckerberg and Won! By panda88

Feb 18, 2009

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It started with a single tip, emailed to a single website.

Day One - Sunday, February 15th

The Consumerist, a consumer advocacy website, posted an article entitled Facebook's New Terms of Service - 'We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content, Forever.' The article was picked up by several other blogs and found its way quickly to Twitter, where it quickly was assigned the #facebooktos and #tos hashtags.

Some twitterers swore to delete their Facebook accounts, others swore to create Anti-TOS Groups on Facebook (I chose to boycott Facebook completely). By and large, most of the Twitter commentary was overwhelmingly negative, with a few die-hard Facebook Advocates (like Mari Smith) defending Facebook. By the end of Day 1, #tos and #facebooktos were some of the top trending topics on Twitter. Read the full article

Comments (12)

Rita012,

Feb 19, 2009

That's the power of community!

Wellness360,

Feb 19, 2009

consumer advocacy at its best

Linkbacks,

Feb 20, 2009

I like social information such as this ... it helps keep a smile on my face that I spotted this trend some many months ago ... my thoughts what goes around comes around ... now thats networking YUP!
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Spuds,

Feb 20, 2009

all the power is with us the user these days. Facebook should have realised this by now.

Kaphoen,

Feb 20, 2009

It's good to see Facebook putting their members concerns in the limelight... although, personally, I can't see the point of Twitter now that the "one way shouters" have got hold of it.

Glennwatkins,

Feb 20, 2009

Great to see - looking at it from the other side of the fence (as I have to!) the change was done in an attempt to ensure continuity of content (rather that "nick" it all!).

Great to see the change back which shows they act as well as listen.

Jason Matyas,

Feb 22, 2009

If only the citizenry were so concerned about the much larger violations of their liberties being perpetrated upon them by their government by acts such as the so-called "stimulus" bill.

Chris Eldridge,

Feb 22, 2009

it was amazing to watch how everyone swarmed all over this when it happened.

Hardhatmack88,

Feb 27, 2009

Nothing like a heated debate to spread the buzz like wildfire

Rmoore,

Mar 11, 2009

Hillarious that an anti-facebook TOS group was built inside of Facebook!

Cheito,

Mar 19, 2009

Why would Facebook want to change their TOS to something so draconian? I get an image of the evil ring master saying to the clown in the circus "I OWN YOU now that you agreed to the TOS" mwaahahahah!..as he plays with his pointy mustache. Not that the Facebook members are clowns. I know, it's not a perfect analogy. But the outcome was pretty impressive.