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Who the heck is using FB any more?
But there will always be twitter, which will continue growing, and be more prominent in the tech niche and with us 'geeks'.
Just my 2 cents.
btw. Gary, follow me on twitter :) @michaelyurechko (my name is linked to it on this comment)
When I was at SouthBy everyone there uses it, so it's used a lot more to reach out and to arrange meetups. When I'm in the UK, people are a lot more remote, so it's used to push messages mainly about yourself to communicate remotely with my friends in the States.
I think Facebook will have to adapt to embrace Twitter. Twitter rules after all!
I am doing my part to get the word out. On my Columbus based blog, the270.com, I've got several post encouraging Columbusite's to use Twitter. I think I even convinced our local newspaper to start actively using it.
Great stuff Gary. Keep it coming.
Biggest difference for me is Facebook kinda replaced LinkedIn. Its all people I know IRL that I work with or was previously friends with. On Twitter I've followed and tweeted to people I've met once or twice or never at all.
When's the Twitter FB app going to 1) let me find the twitter feeds of FB friends and 2) let me find people on FB from my tweeter feed like AIM or Gmail?
My company uses twitter and jaiku in conjunction with our blog to speak to people that are interested in what we do. Facebook is just too "closed".
I think Adam Greenfield has some valid points in his article about "antisocial" networking: http://speedbird.wordpress.com/2007/12/09/antis...
Facebook is trying to map against your real life relations in a weird way. The microblogging tools are more lightweight and direct and therefor more adaptable to you needs.
Just my $0.02.
facebook is a little stuck in the middle now. It isn't focused enough for straight communication (because of all the apps, invitations, etc.) but it is also not deep enough to allow groups to properly interact as such (hence lots of us leaving to set up our own niche social networks where we can do this)
I compare facebook to the college freshers fair (where all new students sign up for clubs and teams). It is a great place to get introduced and gather into groups, but the conversations happen in the bar (twitter) or in study groups (niche social sites like www.openwineconsortium.org)
facebook is not down and out by any means, but it will definitely need to adapt, but it isn't quite as straightforward as facebook vs. twitter
With Twitter, there is the danger of losing productivity because it is real time. There is always something to read, something to reply to. What is great about Twitter can be easily abused because the pull of instant gratification is the stuff of human nature.
See.. I even have to sign this @lithompson ...
@JamesLam
Follow me: Facebook is nice, but slowed down and constantly interrupted by stuff I don't want or need and with updates from people I only felt obligated to add. Why? Because EVERYONE is on it.
Twitter doesn't have as many people on it yet, and it's staying light and fast and giving me really much of the best things I like about FB - connectivity, interaction, maintaining (and meeting) friends, etc. Maybe Pownce is the full extension of this Macified FB. I'll have to check that out.
Funny though, I see things completely opposite from Lisa above. Facebook, with it's clunky UI and applications and fun wall etc is a time suck for me, while Twitter just sits there all day and lets me easily jump in and out. I don't read every tweet that goes by, so maybe it's just that we use it differently.
Either way, Twitter FTW. (@banannie)
On the other hand, FB is a bit fat, it's like a meal prepared by way too many chefs. While integration is good from both technical and usability perspectives there is a point when it becomes too much to deal with. All FB apps can be embbeded into your profile, while twitter apps are separate. It's this separation and cleanness that makes it even more appealing.
Sorry for the long comment, but it's something I can talk about for a while. :)
See you all on Twitter! (@topicm)
I think what you are going to see, moving forward, is that people in Anytown, USA stop using all of this different systems and go back to systems that target the niche audience that is their lifestyle.
~E
He's also right that nobody in the mainstream knows about Twitter. I'm the technology columnist for a newspaper in Florida and although I've told my readers about Twitter before, a lot of them, especially the older ones, have responded "why would I want to use something like that?" Even though the service is pretty simple to use, unless you use it, it can be hard to grasp how it works and why it is useful.
Ever try explaining what it is to someone who isn't in the social media world? Try it.
Even @blaine from twitter told me at FOWA that he still has a hard time explaining it to people.
The key question really is when/if it will hit the mainstream, and when that happens what will happen? Will we see a lot more people start protecting their updates? Since there is such a small, but loyal community, many people (me included) don't protect their updates. Because there is no network setup like Facebook, it's much more open.
@etanowitz
Twitter is just a different beast for me. I just can't see MOST of my friends using it. Maybe it was integrated into their phones it could work, but lets face it, unless it is somehow connected to the iPhone mobile stuff just hasn't really taken off yet.
Twitter is an appetizer. Facebook is a full dinner.
Twitter is great for those quick "shout outs", but lets face it, how much contact can you really have when you have Twitter numbers like @scobleizer, @jasoncalacanis & @leolaporte? It becomes a blur after a while with no way to process the information.
I don't think we're comparing like technologies here. Similar? Yes. But its not a "one or the other" situation.
Would you replace your TV with your iPhone? No you wouldn't. Yes you can watch video content on your iPhone, but its a different experience? Make sense?
Twitter is great to have an app sitting at the corner of your desktop to keep a finger on the pulse of what's happening now. Then you pick it up and take it with you on your mobile device. Facebook is more of your landing pad. A "more professional" homebase possibly?
I like racing but I won't add a twitt contact that does a minute by minute update to the latest race. Totally annoying..
http://www.reactuate.com/2008/03/25/twitter-as-...
I'm new to Twitter since just before SXSW as well. There are a couple of things about twitter that are a plus or a minus depending on how you look at it.
Information flow is the big one. My twitter client, following just a 37 people, dings every 20 seconds. If I turn on SMS my iPhones battery will die before the end of the day. It is just way too much information flowing it. We info-holic internet people may like much info, but I'm not sure about your average person. I can choose to visit a friend's myspace page once a day, or once a week and keep up.
For lack of a better word, Privacy is another issue. Facebook/MySpace lets you talk about yourself. But it isn't constant like Twitter. Some people will love the idea of broadcasting every thing they do, others, not so much. I told my wife about it, and she's a blogger who posts multiple times a day, she thought it sounded crazy to be that open.
But the big place you are right is this is just beginning. Twitter will explode soon, but I'm not sure how mainstream it will be.
I monitor Pownce and Twitter feeds and now going to Facebook seems like a diversion. Pownce and Twitter are like the CNN news crawl as I do my daily work; I can check it if I feel like it, especially to see if VERY GREEN TEAM still rules!
Expect a backlash when this does finally bust it out on the masses. You'll have so-called experts crying for us to slow down. These are experts who didn't grow up in this digital age and/or haven't adapted to multi-track tasking. Word.
I went to your profile, realised you're no Dork, and am I really appreciative of the fact you allowed me to follow you.
THIS really is what Twitter needs and has in growing abundance.
You're going places, and I can't wait to see where.
Pete.
I agree with @topicm comment - FB is the online world of people I know offline, whereas twitter is a place for me to meet new people. Very rarely, if ever, would I "meet" someone via Facebook.
Twitter is where I go to learn and engage in conversation, and Facebook is more like a coffee break.
-@ianchudson
I use Twitter all day, but only go on Facebook maybe twice a day.
FB will adapt or lose the momentum.
If he had sent me a message on Facebook, I'd get an email telling me I had a message on Facebook, I'd have to go over to Facebook, and read it over there. I don't live on Facebook, I live on twitter.
One thing I'd like to see on twitter is a was to group people I am following...
@biird (And I second the "Group Followers" idea)
Adding friend groups is a jab at LinkedIn (which by the way is on an up tick in the way the restaurant across from the Cheesecake Factory always seems to be moderately busy), and making users' status more prominent on the web and in mobile was a knock at Twitter, but they haven't tried to make the knockout punch to actually kill it.
I'm really curious how "Facebook Chat" will change things.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/18/facebook-t...
Facebook aint Twitter (commenter)
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/25/facebook-t...
Others there too held the same sentiment. I just want to know whats going on, where it's happenning and want 2 view friends pictures. I think that is what most people use social networking for!
http://www.andydesoto.com/2008/03/26/twitter-vs...
DOn't think it could happen... I say watch out it could may well happen!
Twitter is more awesome because it's open. Content is king, marketing is the queen, and openness is the royal court!
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Nicely put--> "Content is king, marketing is the queen, and openness is the royal court!"
You ARE you! Period, no hiding behind separate online id's!
What I really want is to have control over that newsfeed. Tie that control to the friend list. For one friend list, I want everything they publish to show up in the feed as fast as possible. For others, I want some kind of filtering like they've got. And there are some that I would just prefer never, ever show up in my newsfeed, because they currently spamming it with useless crap.
And I'm pretty sure Facebook lets you set a "status" via your cell phone and receive your friends statuses to your phone too.
Lastly, applause to those who can afford the monstrous cell phone bill when receiving a twitter every 5 minutes (yes, I know there is a desktop client, but isn't the point to be totally mobile and know what's going on?).
Not that Facebook is dead or going anywhere, it's just a different experience.
We're already building this. The content engine launches in July. Look for us.
-js
@joesardone on twitter
The apps in Facebook are good, most of them are useless to me, and I find FB all a bit boring these days. I mostly only go it it because someone has sent me a message.
Funny though I post my Twitter feed updates to FB now and I've had several of my FB friends inquire about what "Twittering" is. Some have even started to use it - people who I'd consider "mainstream" and would otherwise have never come across Twitter.
I was turned on to Twitter by a group from ABESTWEB who were at the Affiliate Summit in Vegas last month. I am the biggest non-geek who doesn't get anything but I find myself becoming addicted to the possibilities of Twitter!
PS: follow mw on twitter at @iownie
Facebook helps me delve into the world of friends and acquaintances that I haven't contacted in a while. It helps me catch up with them. Twitter keeps me connected and in the know with people that I am CONSISTENTLY interested in tracking and interacting with.
I also think fbook will needs to address their 'speed' issue, for the simple fact you just put them on blast!
But I think there is something you can't take away from Twitter. The smaller app, the better tool.
"You don't unscrew things with a swiss army knife- you can... but you don't. You use a screw driver." The right tool, for the right job.
Twitter just hit the sweet spot.
Twitter is great for communication and "instant gratification" (as you said in the clip), but Facebook is superior for staying in touch and documenting everything that happens in life.
Brandon said it best: it all depends on how you use the services.
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Great points Gary!
For me, was using twitter a while ago, but I'm just now really starting to take hold of facebook. To me, in the beginning, facebook was so social and so much play time the networking value didn't justify my time spent using it. However, now I find I am splitting my time equally between facebook and similar apps such as twitter for text updates and flickr for photo updates.
additionally, I think the two systems have very different user bases and user personality types, so each system fits a different group of users and thus a different reason for me to use it. My casual friends and creative networking buddies don't use twitter... my quick on the go business pals don't use facebook as often as twitter. I think they're equally important at this point.