‘Leave well enough alone’ – a policy guaranteed to ensure that Facebook falls far behind Twitter and allows other social networking websites to catch up and surpass it. Thankfully, these protests are always in the minority and progress, as it always has throughout history, keeps marching on.

A little marketing history lesson Matt, try Googling “new coke” and read up on a little history. Maybe then you’ll understand why Facebook should be very concerned when nearly 1% of their worlwide customer base has joined a protest of their new product design in less than 7 days.

Twitter isn’t going to surpass facebook, it is something entirely different. Facebook is monetized, and it has a brand reputation to preserve. So simply letting a bunch of HTML geeks reinvent the layout every 6 months isn’t the smartest idea. Why should facebook change to compete with Twitter, which serves an utterly different function? Facebook doesn’t try to compete with SMS, which is the most widely used communications platform in the world, well over 100 times more users than Twitter and well over ten times as many users as Facebook.