Facebook Drops Major Cash on WhatsApp

Well this bit of news is huge today in the social media department. Facebook paid $19 billion for the rapidly growing app, WhatsApp. This is more of a move to eliminate competition so I wonder what the future of WhatsApp is to be.

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There are several options here. Facebook could literally fire the entire staff, dissolve the company, and make Whatsapp die. This is obviously least likely.

A more likely option is that Facebook attempts to combine the mobile version of their service with that of WhatsApp's existing platform.

But what will likely happen is that Facebook will take a couple interesting concepts that Whatsapp uses, then ultimately reject the company. The app itself might stay in existence for a short while but I doubt Facebook will put any real work into improving the service when they want to boost their personal brand. Co-branding doesn't really work in the billion dollar businesses.

-by Levi Warner

Twitter will replace Facebook

I've been thinking about the rise of Twitter and how the website seems to be growing in popularity lately. Of course I will unload my own opinion on the matter but I have evidence. First is this article that details the recent rise of the 140 character blog site. 

Twitter recently updated their mobile apps.

The Bloomberg article details the initial public offering [IPO] of Twitter, Inc. and describes its recent successes. I think that Twitter has been more popular recently because of the rapid death of Facebook.

Facebook just isn't cool anymore. My mother is on Facebook and that means I can't share any details of my life besides work and maybe school. That is the most boring part of my life.

Twitter has gone to great lengths to include a young and social audience. It just allows me to reach out to my friends in my own language, unfiltered and with the ability to share it with everyone.

--Levi Warner

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