This afternoon Facebook will introduce commenting on all mini-feed items. This means that you’ll be able to comment on status updates, new friendships, application updates, or other activities listed in your friend’s mini-feeds on their profiles.
Each feed item will now include a comment bubble, which when clicked, will allow you to leave a comment. Up to 8 comments will be displayed for each item, with the ability to click to see more. Finally, if you really don’t want people commenting on your mini-feed items, you’ll be able to disable them from your privacy settings page.
To my surprise, commenting has proved extremely popular on FriendFeed, and I suspect it will do the same on Facebook, especially for things like Status Updates where a conversation can develop around what you’re doing. In a sense, this pushes Status Updates much more in the direction of Twitter.
With Facebook also now enabling you to pull in updates from third-party services like Google Reader and YouTube, it also makes it head-to-head competition for FriendFeed. For the moment, comments will not show up in the News Feed, so it’s not quite comparable to the “Everyone” or “Friends” tabs of FriendFeed … yet.
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