The Daily Poll: How Often Do You Broadcast Your Status?

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Looks like everyone is calling it an early holiday – the top story of the day aside from Firefox 3 Beta is Facebook removing “is” from status updates. While hardly a ground-breaking move in its own right, “microblogging” is all the rage lately, with Twitter growing like crazy, Tumblr ...

Facebook Removing “is” from Status Updates

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

More than 160,000 users wanted it, and tonight they’ll get it: the “is” in Facebook status updates will be removed. The group “Petition to Get Rid of “is” from Facebook Status Update!” describes the issue as: We can’t stand the fact that Facebook forces you to use the word “is” ...