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<header> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="facebook-vs-twitter-a-critical-synopsis.html"
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rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to Facebook vs Twitter: A Critical Synopsis">Facebook vs Twitter: A Critical Synopsis</a></h1> </header>
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<abbr class="published" title="2009-04-06T08:51:00">
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Mon 06 April 2009
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<p>In <a href="./category/Code.html">Code</a>.
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<p>For the sake of us all, lets take a look at two major social
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networks on the web today: <a class="reference external" href="http://facebook.com">Facebook</a> and
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<a class="reference external" href="http://twitter.com/kennethreitz">Twitter</a>.</p>
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<p>Twitter is an information-streaming application that is used by
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people in all walks of life. It functions, sometimes in roundabout
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ways, as an instant messenger, email client, alert system, and
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social networking connectivity tool. It also offers fantastic,
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powerful searching and heavily encourages all-in-all openness.</p>
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<p>Facebook, when I was introduced to it, was an application that
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allowed users to create a simple page with information about
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themselves, and connected them with people they knew in real life.
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Users could send messages to one another, both privately and
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publicly, post links, and upload an unlimited number of photos. Or
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at least it was.</p>
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<p>Recently, Facebook revamped their interface and introduced a
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reinforced concept of status updates being a "life-stream" rather
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than a "summary of my week". Much emphasis is placed on what is
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going on <em>right now</em>, not what happened yesterday. This is great in
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my opinion – however, it totally changes what Facebook is for me.
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Prior to the change, when adding a friend, much emphasis was placed
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on adding relationship details for all of your friends. If you
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didn't know someone, Facebook wouldn't even allow you to keep them
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as a friend. Now, Facebook auto-suggest people that it thinks you
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might know, and encourages the meeting of people through Facebook
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itself. Nothing wrong with that of course... I'm just showing how
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it has been changed.</p>
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<p>There's a fundamental difference here:
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<strong>Twitter changes with its users.</strong></p>
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<p>It changes according to the trends of it's users. Twitter does
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absolutely nothing to influence they way its users use its
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services. In fact, it evolves <em>with</em> them. For example, Twitter
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allowed users to view when people @replied to their tweets by going
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to the @replies section of the user interface. In this section, you
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could see a list of all the latest tweets that started with
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<a class="reference external" href="mailto:'@yourtwittername">'@yourtwittername</a>' and see what people had to say to you. After a
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while, users started adding @replies everywhere in tweets, not just
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the beginning. So, twitter changed the algorithm, and now you can
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see when <a class="reference external" href="mailto:'@yourtwittername">'@yourtwittername</a>' is mentioned anywhere in a tweet.
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Genius.</p>
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<p><strong>Facebook tries to change its users.</strong></p>
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<p>When was the last time you heard a bunch of Twitter users complain
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about a newly implimented feature? and when was the last time you
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heard a Facebook user complain of a new feature or interface
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change?
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Yes, they complain constantly.</p>
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<p>So, what is Facebook's purpose? To deliver useful content and
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introduce you to new people (while delivering ads), or providing a
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nice platform for friends to connect with eachother? If you ask me,
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Facebook's intended purpose is becoming less and less clear the
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longer that I use it.</p>
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<p>Go Twitter.</p>
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