Google Prepping for Twitter, Facebook Rival
Later today, Google is due to launch a social product that will compete with the currently popular social networks – Facebook and TwitterAs the Wall Street Journal reported, Gmail will get a new module that will stream media and status updates of online friends. This module sounds like a Gmail Labs feature which could be enabled or disabled by account holder’s choice.
The LA Times blog ran a good piece entitled “Would adding status updates mean Gmail is having a case of Twitter envy?”
Google has already enabled watching YouTube videos in Gmail Chat. Whatever the integration into Gmail would be like, there’s always a kill switch to bring the service back to normal.
Silicon Alley Insider is already calling the feature Google’s “Twitter-Killer.”



