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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?

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6 Responses to “Why Facebook Steals Potential Tweeters”

  1. d00d says:

    Well I personally think that more people should use brightkite.com

    Like a certain blogger, who shall remain nameless at this time.

  2. Catalina says:

    inorite?

  3. Euicho says:

    Lol yes yes I should. I’ll start using it more when I travel away from Bangor.

  4. Nyrath says:

    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.

  5. B says:

    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.

  6. euicho says:

    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

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