Comments on: If There Could Only Be One: Twitter or Facebook?

By: Jacob Stoops

Jacob Stoops — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:19:19 +0000

Yeah, Twitter is the sh*t!!! I don’t know why, but my time on site from visitors coming from Twitter is fricken amazing! Facebook’s got nothing on it.

By: iGoMogul

iGoMogul — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:06:56 +0000

For personal use, I have no desire to join Twitter. However, for businesses, I have to say that Twitter does sound useful to build relationships and cater to potential clients both individually and as a group. On the other hand, Facebook seems to be more universally understood by more age groups and is less likely to bog itself down in the minutiae of constant tweeting. The chat feature does give Facebook users the potential to have instant personal contact with others. All of this is a moot point, however, as I’m sure a year from now some new social media site will come along that improves on everything, catering to businesses as much as individuals.

Andrew@iGoMogul

By: Caleb Pike

Caleb Pike — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:43:42 +0000

Twitter.

Using twitter you don’t have to deal with all the apps, friends, and general “fluff” giving you at least 2 times as much time to spend interacting with others and social media.

By: Chad Richards

Chad Richards — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:40:27 +0000

I don’t agree that Facebook is passive. Groups are, yes. But when you make status updates on a Page or post note, import a blog, upload photos, videos, etc….those go on the stream that people see on the home page. We have clients set up on both Facebook and Twitter and so far, we’re seeing significantly more interaction on Facebook than we are Twitter. I know it’s different depending on your business and how you’re using these, but that has been my observation.

By: Yawn Webmaster!

Yawn Webmaster! — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:47:01 +0000

Wow, that was a load of cr**.

You’ve fallen right in the to trap of getting sucked into to your own follower and referrer count. But don’t worry, you’re not alone. Everyone is so desparate to find meaning in Social Media, the magic formula.

While I do agree that Social Media is about singling the right ones our for what you want to achieve, to say draw a comparison of Twitter with Facebook leaves me only with these few words of comfort.

Take another holiday, and this time, don’t take a computer.

By: Vinny O'Hare

Vinny O'Hare — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:44:09 +0000

I am not a fan of facebook at all but I must be there for now. Twitter for me is that hot steamy affair and I hope it last for a while. This post was right on, I still think orkut will be bigger someday after all the big G owns it. Right now I get double the traffic from Orkut then Facebook

By: Tiffany Patterson

Tiffany Patterson — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:03:02 +0000

Jeffrey – The same thing here. we get way more excitement from facebook than anything else. I think for most of the general public, they still don’t get twitter. I also do not think that twitter makes it easy to use from their new home page. Someone that has no knowledge of how twitter runs is lost. Facebook has been around for awhile and i’ve noticed a larger growth with 40 something’s and beyond and they get facebook. Okay, i know i’m off topic, sorry.

By: Martin Lindeskog

Martin Lindeskog — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:28:41 +0000

Scobleizer is a real fan of FriendFeed. I sent a small symbolic donation to Louis Gray in order to get The Unofficial Guide for Newbies and Power Users. Description of the PDF:

“A handy, definitive, how-to guide to one of the fastest-growing
social networks on the Web today, from one of its earliest and
more visible users. The eBook will provide “the missing manual”
to the popular aggregation site, and help give guidance to tips
and tricks – without boring you senseless.”

Link to the PDF: http://ff.im/6lLKB

P.S. What are your experiences with Thesis? “Hello world! by admin on April 6, 2008″ My under construction site http://www.EgoSoleTrader.com has the same welcome message, dated April 2, 2009… ;) I don’t want to neglect my site, but I am “stuck” with the “sitemap” at the moment. I want to use a clean cut and simple template in the future.

By: Jowita Blak

Jowita Blak — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:09:07 +0000

I’ve used both, Twitter and Facebook, for my clients and it seems like it really does depend on the business model, industry and target audience. For some websites Facebook is better and drives enormous amount of high value traffic…traffic that converts. For one of the websites I work on, Facebook is the second highest source of traffic. And yeah I agree FB can be passive, but only if you allow it to be. Like all social media strategies, this one too requires a good amount of time to be invested before you see any results. You have to give a reason to people not only to join the group but also return regularly. It’s good for building niche communities, platforms for people with the same interests, passions to meet and interact. Twitter is better for short tips, hints. For promoting competition or new blog post and also to interact with people but in a slightly different way. And I absolutely love it! Personally I’m not a big fan of Facebook but I think some companies should include it in their marketing strategies. As I said before…I know for fact it works for some of them.
The other thing is people do indeed tend to jump on things that are new and forget or get bored of using ‘older’ social sites. They like investigating new things, they are curious. But some of those who switched to Twitter, opened their accounts, posted few lines and…yeah didn’t really know what to do next. The statistics show clearly that the amount of Twitter users grow but the amount of time they spend on it is going down…whereas the average amount of time spend on FB continuously grow.
So yeah..personally Twitter is my fav!
for business – it depends, usually is good to combine it

By: Lisa Barone

Lisa Barone — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:52:28 +0000

Martin: FriendFeed could be next for me. To be honest, it’s perhaps the one site I (purposely) haven’t played with. I imagine once my Twitter affair dies down and I’m looking for something to replace it, I’ll give it a try. Right now, I’m just watching Robert Scoble make babies with it from afar. :)

Joe: If they’re fans are on Facebook, then sure, it makes total sense for them to be there. I just don’t think that’s the norm. And there are definitely ways they could leverage a similar effort on Twitter…but if that’s not where the bulk of their people are, then stick to Facebook. If it’s not broke, don’t fix it, right? :)

Nick: I think that’s my main issue with Facebook, as well. It’s the newspaper equivalent to a blog – it’s outdated as soon as you leave the site. And it’s a passive stream. It’s way too easy for people to forget about you. It’s a lot harder to do that on Twitter when you have people talking in your face 24/7.

Merry: Werd. :)