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Facebook has announced that they are opening up their status API:

Specifically, your applications can now directly access all of a user???s status, links, and notes via new methods and FQL calls. Your application will have access to any status, notes, or links from the active user or their friends that are currently visible to the active user. In addition, we???re opening new APIs for you to post links, create notes, or upload videos for the current user, and we???ve made setting a user???s status easier.

As mentioned, Facebook has made it easier to set a user???s status. Get ready for streaming Facebook status tools galore. Just over one month ago I suggested that opening up that status API would be the first step toward Facebook killing Twitter. Now we will see if this really has as large of an effect as I claimed it would.

Read more here (AllFacebook).  I really doubt that this will be beginning of the end for Twiiter.   There is a very loyal community of users on Twitter has who will not readily shed the tech cred that comes with using Twtter for the relatively mainstream Facebook.