You may not be able to describe them, but you sure can feel them. Finding the space the clicks with you is often tricky, just as finding a voice in a new setting can be. This is not to say that one space is better than the other. And boy is it fun to watch these spaces evolve. I know why I use Twitter, not Facebook. I want to hang out with other innovators and hear what they are saying and reading, so that my thinking is enriched.
I want to try out my latest thinking with other people who know enough to critique well. I want to find people who want to collaborate. All of this happens on Twitter. So while I agree with you that their is a world of celebrity on Twitter, I think there is another world probably overlapping that is about innovation networks. I love it! The medium is partly the message, but mainly the messengers are the message.
Self-selection drives choice of media. One of the differences that I see in my own use of Twitter and Facebook is that I feel much more pressure to be a valuable contributor to my Twitter network than I do to be a valuable contributor and active participant in my Facebook network. A part of that probably does come from your points on micro-celebrity. Facebook, on the other hand, is a far more relaxed experience for me. I have a level of personal and professional credibility before I even make a post.
In some ways, the directionality and parasocial relationships enabled by Twitter make the experience more rigid and formal than the experience offered by Facebook…. The conventional understanding is that Facebook is a more private, comfortable, trusted personal space, and Twitter is a more public, performed space. I started using Twitter before it became a marketing tool for celebrities, at which point I took a long hiatus from Twitter because I was getting annoyed by the spambots and feeling like everyone following me was trying to sell me something.
Anyway, sorry to ramble but your post definitely touched a nerve! Twitter does seem a lot more broad-casty and facebook a lot more conversational. Until reading yr piece, I put the blame for that phenom on the devices assuming that twitter is a phone thing and facebook as a computer thing. Yes interesting to watch them evolve. Though did you-all hear this piece last week. TV is far from dead:. Adina: about the same with me. A lot of the people I am connected to on facebook are family, old classmates, and such.
In the case of family a lot of things are obviously pretty self-censored conversely, pretty hard to turn down a friend request from your parents. Twitter, even though it can be read by people anonymously I am assuming no privacy locks on updates are generally read by people I would feel comfortable talking with even if I can not stand the other person.
If they did not find me interesting they would unfollow me. So I do feel less inhibited about what I talk about there.
Great post, with a lot of very smart observations. You are right about how fun it is to watch to watch these spaces evolve. I want to provide value to those who follow me. In a sense, I think of them as an audience who is looking for something that matters from me even thought I do not know most of them.
I look forward to more posts from you on this topic. I cut the cord that ties these two several months ago, different audiences, different conversations. I think it was Mary Hodder who posted on twitter that while Facebook was like having a dinner conversation with friends, Twitter was like getting up on stage at a nightclub on open mike night. For me personally Twitter is more like a media channel that I curate by choosing those that I follow i do not know the majority of those who i follow, i choose to follow them based on how interesting their tweets are.
It is like a better google reader as you can evaluate the quality of the posts quicker due to their size. Also real time nature in important as well as an opportunity to get a quick reply and engage with a professional in the topic that interests you. For many people strangers or not to see and the sort. But when i post things on Facebook it usually raises discussion and things are more open for debate. Regards, C. I think the difference between the status updates in each also have to do with frequency of posting.
If you did your friends would likely be annoyed or think you are a self-serving attention seeker. Whereas in Twitter this is completely fine. Twitter is more of a stream. If you find a good article or have a great idea you can post it to Twitter on the spot, even if you just posted a minute ago.
With Facebook a few posts spread out through the day is likely enough. Like you said they are two different cultures I like that anthropological notion of the two social networks. I find that most of the people I interact with on Facebook are those I have met elsewhere, on the internet and in RL, while my Twitter contacts are people I met on Twitter. I follow your blog for quite some time already.
Please, do something about your text formatting — font size, contrast between font color and background, etc. I am extremely good at consuming text from a screen 15 hours a day for the last 20 years … but your blog is a real challenge. My self-reporting needs to go out in one interface and ideally be constructed in a way that suits both forums. If it gets any more complicated than this then things are just getting ridiculously complicated in Web 2.
Thank you for solving a mystery for me. I never understood why I just never took to Facebook despite several attempts but once on Twitter, well it was like a duck taking to the water.
In my personal life, I maintain a close friendship with about 12 different people this includes 4 family members. It defaults to posting your messages publicly for the world to search through. This, by far, is the biggest in usage differences. If you end up using both systems, just think before you post who your audience is. But more importantly, I like it this way. I also tend to post smaller and more frequent comments to just Twitter.
And much more personal comments to just Facebook. The result is kind of a constant connection feeling with lots of friends, services and celebrities. The ability to tweet quickly in seconds is always present because somewhere on your screen you already have an open box waiting for you to type in your latest pontification. They also quickly lose their followers. The better twitterers post only interesting thoughts and activities. Most users log into the site a few times a day, respond to the discussions, update their status maybe and play a game or two.
But the instant notification ability of Twitter is what makes it far superior for service broadcasts. What is the Difference Between Facebook and Twitter? February 14, Phoebe Svoboda. Online Marketing , Social Media.
Posts Versus Tweets While you need to post on both Facebook and Twitter, a tweet has a much shorter lifespan than a Facebook update. Storytelling Versus Short Bursts One of the most obvious differences between Facebook and Twitter is the allotted character count. Real Friends Versus Strangers When users post on Facebook, they are connecting with friends and family.
Shares Versus Retweets Facebook will typically earn you more engagement on a regular basis. Links Versus Visual Content On Facebook, a link will typically get much lower reach than visual content because of the way a link is shown on the platform.
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Stay Informed. Treat your inbox to news about digital marketing and hotels. Sure, I can't DM you in this case, but I'm still consuming your updates. Yes, yes, yes, privacy settings complicate both of these statements. But for the majority of users of each site, this is the way it goes. Stemming from this are a whole lot of social norms about who's following who and who's consuming who's content. It's pretty clear that the Celebrity will get followed without reciprocating on Twitter, but there's also a tremendous opportunity for everyday individuals to develop a following.
It's not just the Celebrities who are following different people than the people who follow them; it's nearly everyone except for those who think that auto-follow bots relieve social tensions. Arguably, Twitter began this way, if only because the geeks and bloggers who were among the early adopters were a socially cohesive group. Yet, as the site has matured, the practices have changed and I've watched a whole lot of early adopters who weren't part of the professional cohort leave. For the most visible, Twitter is a way of producing identity in a public setting.
This is where you see personal branding as central to the identity production going on there. It's still about living in public, but these folks are aware of being seen, of having an audience if you will. Twitter also enables a modern incarnation of parasocial relations. Sure, there are one-sided relationships on Facebook too, but they are far more the norm on Twitter.
I can follow the details of a Celebrity's life without them ever knowing I exist. At the same time, there's the remote possibility of them responding which is what complicates traditional parasocial constructs.
Angelina Jolie could never see me reading about her in the gossip mags and commenting on her latest escapades, but, if she were on Twitter, she could sense my watching her and see my discussion of her. That's part of what is so delightfully tempting for Celebs. In short, the difference between the two has to do with the brokering of status.
With Facebook, the dominant norm is about people at a similar level of status interacting. On Twitter, there's all sorts of complicated ways in which status is brokered.
People are following others that they respect or worship and there's a kind of fandom at all levels. This is what Terri Senft has long called "micro-celebrity. But I think that they're really critical. What makes Twitter work differently than Facebook has to do with the ways in which people can navigate status and power, follow people who don't follow them, at-reply strangers and begin conversations that are fundamentally about two individuals owning their outreach as part of who they are.
It's not about entering another's more private sphere e.
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