Twitter Or Facebook
- Ebenezer Oladokun
- Jun 6, 2019
- 2 min read
What did you think when you saw the title of this post?
Oh! This sounds like a joke, why should you even compare both platforms with each other. However, different people from varying age categories are familiar with both platforms.
Anyone in their 30’s and younger is probably thinking that this blog article showing the difference between Facebook and Twitter is not a worthy comparison. Many businesses want to know – Why should I even use Twitter? They think they’ve done really well just setting up their Facebook as a business page instead of a personal one. While that is impressive, it’s not enough.
Let’s look at the differences between Facebook and Twitter and see if you are missing opportunities using one network and not the other.
Facebook launched in 2004 while Twitter launched in 2006
Facebook shares over 2.5 billion piece of contents daily while over 6000 Tweets happen every second
60% of Twitter users are 35 years and below while 55% of Facebook users are 35 years and older
Facebook networks People while Twitter networks ideas and topics.
Facebook allows you to write a book (not that anyone is going to read it). Twitter limits to 280 characters per tweet.
Facebook and Twitter allow the use of hashtags to group ideas / topics. Facebook incorporated this ideas patterned after Twitter.
You can search inside of either network for topics, people, businesses and organizations.
Facebook allowing more options is considered more difficult to use than Twitter.
Both networks are capable of allowing some customization to include your branding.
Facebook allows likes and friends while Twitter’s call to action is to follow.
Inside of Facebook you will Like or Share something. Yet inside of Twitter you will ReTweet or Favorite Something.
You can find your old elementary friends or high school love interest on Facebook. On Twitter you can find the latest topic trending – like the Oscars, News, Celebrity Stories and more.
This takes us to a final say, 'DO NOT PUT ALL YOUR SOCIAL EGGS IN ONE BASKET'.
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