E-mail client from Google - Gmail - develops addition, redundant functions of the popular service Twitter.

In particular, users can read the status of friends from the chat application Google Talk one list on a separate page. Status will be listed in chronological order - so users can share news or discuss an event. What is happening at Twitter.

If this service will be launched in the form of which now claims he will be a serious competitor to Twitter, wrote paidContent. The number of Gmail users in the world now exceeds 150 million people. And Twitter in September was 18 million users.

However, according to representatives of the publication, Google is acting cautiously in the first place on the competitors Yahoo and Microsoft. Similar function in Windows Live messenger appeared in 2008, while Yahoo announced the development of new service status in the e-mail in August.

Recall the other day about the intention to launch a competitor Gmail announced the largest social network in the world of Facebook.