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Okay what's differentiating Twitter from fucking Facebook now?

Only the facts that there's (currently) no policy against pseudonyms, bots and multiple accounts and that there's no useless crap games like Farmville.

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I think that the crucial difference between twitter and facebook is not the length of the posts, but the fact that twitter is broadcast, or "publish-subscribe", while facebook is semi-private through reciprocal permission (by default).

And the publish/subscribe model being a possibly superior alternative to a two-way opt-in friendship model, is probably the reason for twitter's success not the 140 characters. So by keeping the subscription model but allowing for longer content, I think it's a win-win.

Funny enough, Facebook first copied Twitter with the subscription function...

Their new non-chronologically sorted timeline sure smells of Facebook to me, too.

Yeah, thank God they didn't force that crap onto me, yet. If they'll do I have to switch clients -.-

What difference would the client make? The feed comes from the API, even in the official client [1].

[1] Few years ago I'm sure it was like that, they might've changed to a private API since.

A client could periodically poll for new tweets and sort them by timestamp.

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