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The following is a response to an article posted at Silicon Alley Insider a blog I frequent. I'd been mentioning the danger that Twitter faces in the form of competition from Facebook here and (ironically) on Facebook. This details the key reasons I see Facebook as becoming increasingly resistant to the theory that once people get "bored" of it they will go else where. It won't be so easy to do, and that is exactly Facebook's plan: Nice to see you guys finally getting it, Twitter is fast on its way to being irrelevant. They are going to wish they took that half bill offer down the line when Facebook fully replaces everything they offer. In fact Facebook already fully does everything twitter provides. All this other talk of the cyclic nature of social networks is missing the important distinction that makes Facebook a bookend compared to everything else. Namely , Facebook did more than just try to be a destination among many, it has systematically outflanked and i...