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Facebook vs. Twitter
thought this was kinda interesting
http://www.twitip.com/twitter-versus-facebook/Different Communication Styles for Different Social Settings
Let’s say you go to a wedding or other social gathering where lots of people know each other. The style and tone of communication there will be more like using Facebook; you chat with old friends and acquaintances, mixing and mingling in an intimate manner. In this setting, people tend to feel more relaxed and “in their element”. Conversations are familiar and center on shared experiences and connections.
Now, when you go to a large party or social event where you don’t know most of the people in attendance, you will use a very different style of communication, more like Twitter; you want to meet people and somehow make yourself known, stand out from the crowd, make an impression, self promote and make new connections. Twitter is like getting the podium and not everyone feels comfortable or knows how to stand comfortably in the spotlight.
In fact, almost all of us, when first approaching Twitter, tend to use it to post useless updates like “Going to lunch”, thinking of it as a another tool to communicate with friends, when in fact, it is more like stepping on to a stage, where you are communicating with an audience and quickly find that you need to find a voice and say something useful and interesting or quickly lose the attention of your audience. People refer to Twitter as a mini or micro blogging platform.
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It seems pretty popular though. I know a few friends use it.
I guess its cool if you actually have friends that use it, or have a group of followers lol
I'm pretty sure I'll forget about it in a month, but I'll give it a shot anyways.
twitter = shit broke
facebook = big $$
;)
MySpace = $$$
Facebook = $$
Twitter = $
MySpace made the most cash, with $800 million but that's only because it's been around the longest.
Basically what happened with Twitter and Facebook is that Twitter took the FB status feature and built a whole community around its simplicity. Unknowingly, they also created a sort of real time, open, far reaching channel for communication. Basically one big, searchable conversation which allowed companies to embed themselves into users news feeds. This opens the door to whole new ways of advertising.
Facebook struggled to make money in 2008 but as soon as they realized why Twitter was growing so rapidly over the fall of 2008, they decided to change their own Homepage to reflect this new more efficient style of sharing social info...one that can be monetized a lot more effectively. FB even tried to buy Twitter but Twitter turned the offer down so FB really had no choice but to adapt.
Twitter is still a newly founded company which is receiving VC investment, so it will take some time but it will eventually make as much as MySpace is making now while Facebook will be probably make the most in the long run.
http://twitter.com/MayorGregor