With the development of social networks, social networks make the link between people more closely and the social information resources can be used maximized.
As the two biggest social-networking sites around the world, the contrast between Twitter and Facebook did not see an end. Twitter or Facebook seems a really hard question for a lot of people.
However, as Social, Digital & Mobile worldwide report on the key social, digital and mobile stats from around the world demonstrate. I have found a good graph that can see the difference between Twitter and Facebook.
Here are some interesting figures:
- Facebook has 500000000 users, and Twitter has 106000000.
- 88% of people are aware of Facebook, 87% of people know Twitter. …show more content…
Before we answer this question, let us see some differences between Facebook and Twitter.
The general view is that people are multi-faceted. The communication of Twitter and blogs is your professional face, and Facebook spreads people’s private image. But compared with the traditional Web2.0 media, the most important improvement is that they removed the burden of inspired and created vast amounts of contents. But here are some refine viewpoints.
Addition or subtraction
The layout of Facebook and Twitter is very different. Every time you visit the Facebook page, it seems to have some frames or navigation adjustments. The strategy of Facebook is never let the user to have a break, so that users can continue to explore the various functions of Facebook. But Twitter is always having a satisfied attitude. Mark Zuckerberg who found Facebook is most willing to talk with product developers but Costolo, the CEO of Twitter, likes to maintain a simple interface forever for the user and his advertisers.
“The layout of Facebook is more easy for me. Easier to click into things that I want to see and there are reminders to functions and birthday. ” Said by Shara who is studying in Deakin University and almost put every thing about her life on …show more content…
According to wearesocial.sg ‘s report, there are 12800000 people have the same choice like Shara. This report shows that 81% online users own an account on Facebook while 42% of them have an account on Twitter around Australia.
Compared to the openness of Twitter, Facebook is more closed.
"Any user who is not in your contact list can not see your personal information submitted in Facebook. Unless the user sets the profile to the public.” This sentence is written down in the privacy policy of Facebook.
Another reason makes Facebook addicts prefer it than any other social media is that Facebook provides them only page but it covers almost all pages. Such as Yahoo Messenger, Google+, Hotmail, MySpace, YouTube, etc. They only need to log in one page and it can satisfy all their online social interaction needs.
In fact, many people say that they are no longer using e-mail and real-time chatting tools for their online social communications; instead they are logging in Facebook for email, chat and sharing pictures and