• GigaOm, Wednesday, April 14, 2010 2:30 PM

Upon visiting Facebook's brand-new Palo Alto offices, Om Malik had a few revelations regarding the relationship between the social network and Twitter. For better or worse, he says, "The future of these two companies are intertwined! They are the Kane & Abel of our new pulsating two-way, near-real-time Internet ... Together, they dominate the zeitgeist."

Rather than coexisting peacefully, however, Malik believes that Facebook and Twitter are "competing for essentially what is the next evolution of the Internet: The People Web." What's more, Twitter's presence conflicts directly with Facebook's vision of the Web, i.e., a Web where every action and interactive is connected directly or indirectly to the social network's "braid via hooks."

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