FACEBOOK addicts: it’s time to have sex, eat out, talk to a mate and, most importantly, stay offline.

More than 1.3 million users have vowed to turn their backs on the social networking site tonight for 24 hours in another protest against the revamped layout. Australian users will be among the first to log off at 6pm (AEDT) today, with global users joining at dinner time in each timezone. French resident Boris Kelevra created the site in response to limits put on sending messages and poking, among other changes.

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SOCIAL networking company Facebook has recently been in acquisition talks with Twitter, the micro-blogging company, according to a report by the Financial Times.

The negotiations put a valuation of as much as $US500 million ($767 million) on Twitter, which has become one of Silicon Valley’s most closely watched start-ups, the paper said.

The talks, which were first reported by technology news website AllThingsD, were confirmed to the paper by two sources.

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