Facebook's Inspiration Is Another Social Network's Innovation

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FacebookFB
announced a handful of new apps and features last month, bringing a piece of
Twitter
,
Amazon
and
Snapchat
to the world's largest social network. "I would say Facebook is becoming more like Twitter through these kinds of innovations, rather than Twitter becoming more like Facebook," Wedbush analyst Shyam Patil
told Benzinga
. Facebook and Twitter have been accused of copying each other before, but Facebook has been
criticized
for adding a large number of Twitter-style features. In 2011, Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer (who was the VP of Engineering at the time) responded to the allegations that his company had copied too many features from Twitter and
Google+
. "…The challenge with this is that anytime we launch something, you can say it's a response to X or Y," Schroepfer told attendees at
TechCrunch Disrupt
. Coincidence or not, the familiar features keep on coming. Click through the slideshow to see the full list. Disclosure:
At the time of this writing, Louis Bedigian had no position in the equities mentioned in this slideshow.
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