Differences and similarities between Facebook and Twitter

Hi everyone, hope you all have a fabulous break for Chinese New Year. For this week I will discuss about two familiar social networks.

Below are some of the differences between facebook and twitter:-

i) The power of search

Facebook is closed, you cannot search any of your own feeds or status updates or comments or likes. You have a basic keyword search that allows to find friends or applications. Twitter on the other hand, allows us to search to find conversation happening on any keywords and subscribe to it as a RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed. It is like have a Google SEM (Search Engine Marketing) engine sending you customers to your RSS feed every 10 seconds.

ii) Privacy

Facebook is our real social graph, real family, friends, collegemates co-workers, teachers, colleagues, fellow parents, friends suggested or referred by real friends. Facebook is also single mindedly focused on offering the best privacy controls to the users so they can share as little or as much of their pictures, profiles, videos etc. with their real friends. However, Twitter is our public social graph. Everything is open, anyone can follow you and there is lot of chatter anytime you tune in.

iii) The real me, The real Time!

In twitter, you can friend anyone by following them without their knowledge or permission. You allow anyone to follow you and it is optional to friend that person back so the relationship gets mutual and allow them to send you a direct message. This is in contrast to facebook where you friend a person and it has to be mutually agreed and accepted before you can view their profile or post on their wall or see their feeds.

Now, let’s think about some of the similaraties between these networks.

The core part of both Facebook and Twitter surround “status messages” that we and our friends post to stay in touch with each other. Messages like “just got back from the Avatar movie” will frequently start an online discussion between those you know about how successful the new film was as a “reboot” of the old series. More boring messages like “I just had my lunch” will only stir up the electronic version of crickets and will provoke little conversation.

In the nutshell, I have both facebook and twitter account and I prefer them equally but for different purposes. Facebook is a collection of conversations with friends and family but twitter help to make new friends.

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