Although this article (http://bit.ly/4IRvTy) has a sensationalist subhead, there is only one line in the article that relates to that statement. I quote "our research shows that even more than Twitter, people are using social network status updates -- mostly Facebook -- for these same sorts of connections."

This is a theme I've been exploring for a couple of months now. Here's my original post from Nov. 11: Is Facebook the inevitable social portal? http://tinyurl.com/yjgv9pp

Put simply, Twitter is going to go away. It's easy to figure out how to use it, but most folks can't figure out why to use it. Having been on twitter for almost two years, I love it but I notice the adoption rate over that time, despite Ashton Kutscher, is nothing compared to the rise in Facebook users. People get Facebook..it's about friends. Twitter is about business.

I have no doubt that Facebook will absorb all of Twitter's functionality soon; they just incorporated the retweet feature. And doubtless, everyone on Twitter already has a Facebook page. In fact, one person I follow, Matt Singly (@mattsingley) who has 32,000 followers on Twitter, posts to both Facebook and Twitter simultaneously.

That is the future.

We will tire of maintaining multiple tools. When I can port my fellow Tweeters to Facebook, and maintain those connections there, I will do so, I just hope I'll be able to retain the conversations and friends I've met on Twitter, because they represent a very diverse amalgam of brilliant, educated, humorous people and and I will miss them if they go away completely.