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Why Facebook Steals Potential Tweeters
// June 11th, 2009 // Software and Web Design // Print Article //
I had a brief little convo. with my bff John Nels (who’s an excellent musician: johnnels.sad-machine.com) about Twitter and facebook. Rather than summarize I’ll just paste it here:
Thomas: Its funny, people complain about twitter being pointless, but I have SO MANY people on facebook that update just as if it were twitter, all day long
John: i know
Thomas: they’re twittering without twitter basically lol
John: but the do more on facebook
Thomas: yeah. its cause they’re already on facebook doing tons of shit; playing games and stuff
John: right
Thomas: that was a brilliant move on facebook’s part
John: why do it on a site that just does updates then?
Thomas: exactly. They make twitter obsolete for lots of people.
What do you guys/gals think? Amirite?
Tags: social media, twitter




Well I personally think that more people should use brightkite.com
Like a certain blogger, who shall remain nameless at this time.
inorite?
Lol yes yes I should. I’ll start using it more when I travel away from Bangor.
Well, to me the difference is that one can follow a given person’s tweets without the permission of that person. But you can’t examine somebody’s facebook wall unless they specifically let you.
really it’s just annoying to manage so many things unless you have a system setup, which is why i am only managing my facebook for my personal updates. I am still using twitter but only for my work stuff since I only need to keep track of my daily activities. And really no one was updating for my twitter friends other than the great euicho and I could read his twitter posts on facebook, so thus I didn’t need it.
Both very true.
Having a system was crucial for me. I don’t care too much for updating my facebook status, but since twitter does it automatically I set it up. Also, I like brightkite, but wouldn’t want to update that AND twitter each time. Luckily, brightkite updates twitter for me if I use it. And Yahoo Fire Eagle brokers my location info between any services I allow so I can control my privacy levels.
Without things updating one another it becomes a social networking nightmare/fuster-cluck