For example: My brothers and I created a facebook app Status King. It is based completely around clever Status Updates and we are the first facebook app to turn facebook status updates into t-shirts. If Facebook gives us the ability to create a Status Update microblog for our app, I would use it in a heartbeat—just don’t make it so my friends have to see it without following.

If status updates become the microblogs for apps, groups, fan pages, and even any website hooked to facebook connect, then I can see why people think this might just be Twitter’s death. Too bad “status update” does not have the wordplay of “twitter”—Twitter still has the most perfectly brandable name I have ever seen.