I get that argument a lot here, and I've written lengthy counterarguments before, but that's not at all the case. Look at the features that Facebook introduced to the Internet. They introduced the public feed in the first place, they introduced status updates, peopletagging, granular privacy settings, friend metadata, a whole slew of features I'm certain I missed or am hesitant to credit Facebook. Without Facebook, you don't have Flickr's photo privacy, you don't have FriendFeed, you don't even have Twitter.
The idea that Facebook thinks it has to "beat" Twitter is ludicrous.
The idea that Facebook thinks it has to "beat" Twitter is ludicrous.