Facebook Timeline Launch Date still a mystery

 

Ever since Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook Timeline last month, the tech world has been busy trying to guess when the new profile layout — which focuses on users’ entire lives rather than their most recent updates — will launch for all Facebook users.

Would it be Sept. 29? Obviously not, since that date came and went. Oct. 6? Nope. How about Oct. 19? Probably not.


Here’s what seems to be happening: When users activate the Timeline feature, Facebook gives them a date when their personal profiles will publish. It does not necessarily refer to the date when all users will receive the feature, and varies from user to user.




Anecdotally, the date when Timeline profiles go live seems to relate to when the profile was activated. Someone who activates today, for instance, receives a later date than someone who activated a couple of days ago.

Some observers have interpreted the multiple dates as evidence that Facebook has pushed back its public launch of Timelines, perhaps as a result of a trademark lawsuit that was filed by Timelines.com (nothing in the legal filing indicates that Facebook changed its Timeline launch date). It is more likely that the feature is intended to launch gradually rather than all at once. We haven’t discovered a launch date, because there isn’t just one.

Source: Mashable

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