Facebook tests new feature

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Facebook is dabbling with a Twitter-like feature.

11 June,2011 08:15 pm

The feature alerts members in real time to what their friends are up to on the social network.The feature called Happening Now is being tried by a fraction of a percent of Facebooks more than 600 million members. It is currently testing a feature within News Feed that gives people the ability to see what their friends are commenting on and liking. In the coming weeks the social networking giant will keep making improvements and may expand it to more people. The new Facebook feature apparently alerts people to what friends are doing at the social network.The feature was seen by some as a potential challenge to global micro blogging service Twitter, which lets people share what they are thinking, doing, or seeing instantly in messages of 140 or fewer characters.