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Friday, March 13, 2009

If “Oprah”-Approved Zuckerberg Can’t Buy Twitter, Co-Opting It Is the Next Best Thing!

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Fresh from his puppy dog-esque “Oprah” interview, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg made good use of the press the talk show appearance engendered to hawk his wares, most especially new features the hot social-networking site has been coming out with of late.

Including some that look suspiciously like Twitter, which declined an acquisition offer from Facebook last year.

But what tool did the ever-clever Zuckerberg also use yesterday to flack his products?

Twitter, of course!

Here is his tweet in question and also a snippet of his appearance with Oprah too.

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Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference. Read more »

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