Why Facebook Steals Potential Tweeters
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 longJohn: i knowThomas: they’re twittering without twitter basically lolJohn: but the do more on facebookThomas: yeah. its cause they’re already on facebook doing tons of shit; playing games and stuffJohn: rightThomas: that was a brilliant move on facebook’s partJohn: 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?
B, 
d00d 3:52 am on 6/12/2009 Permalink
Well I personally think that more people should use brightkite.com
Like a certain blogger, who shall remain nameless at this time.
Catalina 12:54 pm on 6/12/2009 Permalink
inorite?
Euicho 5:43 pm on 6/12/2009 Permalink
Lol yes yes I should. I’ll start using it more when I travel away from Bangor.
Nyrath 9:05 am on 6/14/2009 Permalink
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.
B 9:57 pm on 6/15/2009 Permalink
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.
euicho 1:40 pm on 6/16/2009 Permalink
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