BREAKING: Facebook Introduces @Mentions in Status Updates

Courtesy Mashable!  Thu, 09/10/2009 - 13:13

One of Twitter’s strongest features is the @reply, where you can direct a message to someone else on twitter by typing @ and then their username.

Facebook, which is trying to emulate some of Twitter’s best features , doesn’t have anything similar in news feed.

In short, it’s not easy to have a public conversation.

Very soon, that will no longer be the case .

Facebook just introduced the ability to tag your friends...


 

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