IMHO it's bad form to automatically feed your Facebook status with your Twitter tweets as a one-way toss over the transom. I'm seeing an increasing number of Facebook accounts where my newsfeed shows someone's status update along with replies and ensuing conversations, but where the original poster is oblivious to this because they don't check in on Facebook.

It's OK to connect your services, but be responsible for the conversations you start.

Just saying.

Ashton Kutcher now has more subscribers on Twitter than any US newspaper except USA Today and Wall Street Journal has for its paper news.
He's closing fast on those two that one. (In the one day since I started writing this blog, he's surpassed the Wall Street Journal).

If you don't think the comparison counts, I wonder how many of his 2 million followers buy or read paper news as regularly as they check Twitter?

How does this flocking behavior work in social media? Kind of like this (RT @aplusk):

Cisco has replaced General Motors on the Dow 30 Industrials index, further symbolizing the rise of the well-clichéd "Information Superhighway" relative to industries based on actual superhighways.  This isn't a literal substitution - people haven't dramatically moved to drive less because online shopping is easier, though it does seem to be elastic with gas prices.

Recall the Yellow Pages slogan "Let Your Fingers Do the Walking" which implied that at one time, you had to do a lot of walking (not driving) to find goods and services.
AT&T is still in the Dow 30, as fingers still walk over keyboards and cell phones, while B.F. Goodrich, maker of shoes for all that real world walking and tires for all that real world driving, joins GM in the league of also-rans.

I've been behind in my blogging, and I was worried that today's post might be moot before I wrote it. But logging into Facebook this morning, I see that the new interface is still there.

It's been thoroughly thrashed by Facebook users, and I'm expecting it to go away soon, but you never know.     Maybe Facebook is in The Bubble.

It's not just a subjective thing. In short time I'm seeing people report that they can't find features that you'd expect to be more easily found. "How do I find new groups"?

I'm also seeing for the first time people writing to their status messages that are obviously meant for someone else's wall.  I don't know if this is because of a change in the interface to write back on the wall of someone who wrote on yours, or if Facebook eliminated the ability to comment back to a post someone made on your wall. But a status like: "Let's check our schedules and see what works out. Meanwhile, love to you both." is clearly a one-to-one reply and not a "status". This isn't the user's fault here; I'm seeing it often enough to blame the new interface.

I'll be interested in the stats, but I'm anecdotally hearing about (and also sensing) frustration enough to drop off or away for a while.

I've seen independent versions of my suggestion that Facebook is pulling a QWERTY. A popular legend has it that the odd layout of the typewriter keyboard was designed to slow typists down so as not to jam the fragile mechanism of the newly invented typewriter. Maybe the new layout is to shed enough users or usage to allow the servers to catch up with the growth of the Facebook population.

Is the move made to make Facebook more Twitter-like, and if so this a defensive move against the migration of attention cycles from Facebook to Twitter?  Facebook could do better than to lame up its interface as a defense. Could Facebook by this type buy Twitter without ruining it?  Or could they better integrate Twitter using Twitter's APIs?  TweetDeck shows that you can integrate the two streams.  I use Facebook status to send more ephemeral updates among my friends and networks, and I use Twitter to enter my thoughts into a larger and more persistent and searchable universe.  I could see an interface within Facebook that could feed both.

On the positive side, I've appreciated better integration of messages from pages as well as friends into my newsfeed. So far.

Maybe the old Facebook interface will soon be resurfaced as "Facebook Classic",  and after about 25 years they can drop the "Classic".