Comments on: Facebook vs Twitter: Why facebook will never be twitter

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:30:00 +0000

@Jon Reid wow great post Jon.

you wrote: 'My experience is that this encourages connections based on content'

It's great how 'again' we come to the same exact conclusion. In the above post I wrote:

It [Twitter] (somewhat) dettaches the idea from the author.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:03:00 +0000

And Xian, though what you say is technically correct, the "leaning" of each platform is different. This is not just because Facebook stuff is private (by default) and Twitter stuff is public (by default). It has a lot to do with the asymmetric following Ronald describes, which changes the nature of the relationships. …In case it helps, I have diagrammed the difference between the relationships in jonreid.blogs.com/.../twitter-is-not-

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:38:00 +0000

@Xian Valid point. But the way media presents itself will shape (or maybe filter?) the demography and culture of its audience.

For e.g MySpace for someone reason are still found to be highly appealing to the younger crowd. And its probably due to its emphasis on skinning options, public profile and music plyaer.

My point is, with the different feature facebook got, one would need to jump over alot of hoops to make it public. for e.g, sacrificing the completeness of personal details (like phone numbers), manually untagging personal photos posted by friends, etc.

Its philosophy (hence its feature) are driving people to make it a personal/trusted application to share with their trusted network.

Twitter through its (lack of) features obviously tend to pull their audience to open up more to the public.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:35:00 +0000

That depends part upon to what purpose you assign to both facebook and twitter. I know yours, in that you consider facebook private and twitter public.

However your facebook profile may be public and your twitter private. So your assumptions may not be relevant to all.

In the end they are both mediums upon which to communicate, and your personal desires will shape your experience.