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Twitter vs Facebook

[fa icon="calendar"] Apr 13, 2009 10:59:00 PM / by Marcus

Disclamer: I am a 23 year-old consumer of social media. I work professionally in social media. This blog post represents my personal opinion and probably a lot of other kids in my demographic. It you agree comment, if you disagree email me. :) JK do both.

Facebook vs. Twitter (insert Star Wars analogy)

And why I need both.

Q: “Does anyone have any tips for growing a mustache?’

A: “Watch a complete season of Walker Texas Ranger.”

Above is a recent status update on my Facebook page. It is coupled with one of the responses I got. I got a bunch of responses about it. It was just for fun and I have no real interest invested in growing a mustache (I can’t) however it makes for a great point about my personal differences between Twitter and Facebook.

I wouldn’t post that status update as a tweet on Twitter. It wouldn’t get a response. I wouldn’t post an article on research numbers for word-of-mouth marketing on Facebook. For me Twitter is a way to connect to social media people and a professional resource. Twitter helped me find an internship, a job and where I go for relevant information about my industries and irrelevant information from @iamdiddy.

I have met almost all of my 700+ friends on Facebook I probably haven’t met a third of the 500+ people I follow on Twitter.

The culture is way different on Facebook than it is from Twitter. On Facebook I don’t really want very many friends, just those people who are important enough to me personally to keep in touch with. I really don’t want to follow brands either. But I cant connect with my friends on Twitter like I can on Facebook. Also I cant "watch" people who I think are important or my submit valuable information to me via Facebook.

The point is that the two insanely popular social networks are different, are NOT competitors and if you’re like me you need both.Twitter is awesome and it filled a void that was obviously needed. At Facebook and everywhere else we need to understand that copying the Twitter model isn't going to get you very far. Mark Z keep doing what works for you. People who comment on Mashable and Techcrunch get over Twitter and start thinking of new ways to make social media great. There are ton of very smart people in social media we should have four or five Facebooks and Twitters. Like @iamdiddy would say

"Its so hard to stop eating carbs! I love carbs!!!! Lol"

Thats not right, I meant

"Let's go people!!!!!! LOCK IN!!!"

-Marcus

Thanks to Blake for the Apple pic

http://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/2379175662/

Marcus

Written by Marcus