#Twtrcon: MySpace vs Facebook vs Twitter

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  • en: @vanessaleinani are you responding to me? or someone else? im not sure? 07/08/09 02:53pm
  • en: @zhandlen I was ranked as a "George Carlin wannabe," #20,000 or so. 07/08/09 02:53pm
  • nl: @goldie305 Working hard or hardly workin. 07/08/09 02:53pm
  • en: Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, or power, but for meaning. Victor Frankl 07/08/09 02:53pm
  • en: Looking more and more like I should know whether I have a job by the end of this week, but if not it could be right before or after my Bday 07/08/09 02:53pm
  • en: @WMoseley hey do you think he's a fake? i'm wondering if georgie & skandar's accounts are fake ones or not. skandar put personnal pics :/ 07/08/09 02:53pm
  • en: YOU can be picking up 3, 4, or even 5 girls a week from Facebook, MySpace, Twitter http://tinyurl.com/kl6rdf 07/08/09 02:53pm
  • en: @KevinDurant35 what you think of artest on the lakers...upgrade or downgrade from ariza? 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: driving through kentucky, determining if michigan drivers or florida drivers... 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: Isolated shower or storm possible today. We sit under northwest flow! You can read more about it on the weather blog! 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: @lyonza Or Snowy. That would make you Captain Haddock. 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: AT&T Wi-Fi, stop being stupid and crapping out on me. I just paid $7.99 for an all-day pass, so you'd better behave or so help you god. 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: @ShelleyFOD - I thought SW had deals but they are only for Sept-Nov or something like that. 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: @andreamyers You could call it brave - or dumb? :) 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: Please visit http://www.twitter.com/grace_for_life or blog at http://www.graceforlife.com -- Blessings, Terry 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: thinks she needs to learn to like coffee or soda. mmm caffeine. 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: They say things (good or bad) comes in 3s...after this week I believe them...now where is that 3rd thing hiding!? http://myloc.me/8wTF 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: Reading "Open Source in Law Firms - Unimaginable or Brilliant?" by @glambert http://is.gd/1r8Ot 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: @whitehouse What is so hard with this health care business. Everyone has their own policy based on ability to pay. No deductions or co-pay. 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: @crazytwism : try contest2win or orkut polls in community 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: @HemetIsHeaven: "@iSiTi @J1K2L3 @Lov3it @idetox @iMAKEUPi @icoffeei @iteai SO GOOD HOT OR COLD...IOne of my fav... ♫ http://blip.fm/~9kgpn 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: @DerWats Ah! But they don't like 'anything' - so no point showing everything again. Or is there? 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: "And I am happy because I found out that I am really _No One_." (Or one of 1000 others... that sucks. why is he a frickin player?) xD dude~ 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: Question of The Day: Moms, What baby accessory or gear could you not live without?i.e. nursing pads stopped those embarrassing leaky moments 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: Well, I successfully did not encounter a turkey, or any other animal, on my way to campus this morning! 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: @TheDailyBlonde that or you need to quit tweeting in your sleep =) 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: Miami for 3days or Larado Texas....I think Miami...lol 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: @OfficialBF1943 its nice but i cant join to any game it says that it cant find anything or The server is unvaiable :( xbox360 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: Interpret your dreams or nightmares....http://witchcraftandspells.blogspot.com/ 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: Your so supersticious (sp) we doin it grande 4 ur bday or wat?! RT @j510: here I am jus came on the radio, it's gona be good day :) 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: What do they do? And wow, these guys think they are so cool because they might have done a crazy thing or two. And nice, that's pleasant. 07/08/09 02:52pm
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  • en: Turns out.. Supposed to be in green bay at 1030 not 9 or 930. I kinda fail Haha. Got some time to blow. Sweet 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: @djbigcesar #turnon "MILF lol chick with a kid or 2 who looks like she's never been fucked"<<< I 2 have a thing for moms...can't ex 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: @PTrini Why Don't U Drink Nutrament Or Ensure I Hear Those Things Fill U Up Pretty Well = / 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: Looking for Indie films with Visual Effects to feature. Behind the scenes coverage a la Cinfex style. @indiefex with url's or leads 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: @dominiccampbell for me, I call that 2nd lunch. Or third lunch if it's a weekend 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: More GOP state endorse Shapiro. Is Dew not running or do GOP senators really have that little respect for him?New BOR Post:http://tr.im/roSq 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: On my way to work i wish i was on my way to disney world. Or a gallow. 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: why does everybody assume they are in a challenging business environment??? Does that say more about the company or the person? 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: Doctor's appt this morning..pray I can get some xrays or a MRI..I need some answers!!! 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: @NessaRenee im waiting i was like he better have a Chris TV or something lmao 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: http://tinyurl.com/n5ttze -most innovative yet easy-to-use tool for an automated online business that yields 6 or 7 digit earnings range 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: Figuring out if we should still do Lunch 2.0 outside in Market Square or if inside would be better? Will is rain more later? Thoughts? 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: Looking for funny quotes or at least ones that would make people smile. Got rolls in the oven too. 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: @hobokenmetromom--try Hmart in Ridgefield, NJ or Han ah Reum in Murray Hill, NY. If you need kids themed, try Hello Kitty stores. 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: Tom Lenk might be doing a meet & greet after the show tonight and I forgot to bring a Buffy DVD insert or something. Damn it! 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: it hurts me to see you with another girl or girls but what can I say? You're a flirt expert. pwe! 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: Kooks 1 3/4'' long tube headers and high flow cats $1185.00 plus shipping (generally around $45.00). I need 6 or.. http://tinyurl.com/lttom4 07/08/09 02:52pm
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  • en: @mailboy23 How did you know I was a divine furry ball ? LOL and Yes I will and do you mind bigamy or can you wait for a divorce 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: Cygalle Healing Spa launches new products- including items for men! Swing by the Spa while at the resort or log onto www.casadecampo.com.do 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: RT @MiiNG_Lee: What is unseen counts for nothing. Never let yourself get lost in the crowd, then, or buried in oblivion. Stand out 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: *FEEDBACK NEEDED: HELP!* I have to move forward w/my game. either a desktop client, like WoW, or an online platform, e.g. Moonlight & Java. 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: @myron317 Thanks. It's all true. To bad I have this stupid final today, or today would be easy as pie. :p 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: @moxiePR LOL I GOT A POLO.....I KNOW HOW TO DRESS.....I JUST HAVE A WIDE SELECTION AND I DONT KNOW IF I SHOULD COME DRESSED OR CONVENTIONAL 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: @Jessi728 once every two weeks, unless I spill something or have sex(rare) - then they get washed immediately. 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: @iaindodsworth iphone tweetdeck - you need to make the cancel/send buttons harder to press by accident. maybe press & hold or something :) 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: @mrsamy77 What else am I here for (except of course, bail or cellmate?!) lol....love you too! 07/08/09 02:52pm
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  • en: If you're a nurse or looking to get into the field, check out our upcoming info session at Cedar Crest College. http://tinyurl.com/lfdgfh 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: @jjooss "when I was young" XD sorry, hahax) yeah, same with me, I were really light before too:( I just bleached-stipes tho (or how it says) 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: Time to play my favorite airport game: Bluetooth or Crazy? 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: Done! Would be good if the night remains this cooling but not 'til dawn or I'll oversleep again. 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: @adamlambert I'm bored, can't you tell? ok maybe not, you're probably sleeping or something lol, hell, i need a life big time! 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: Aging is not a sport for the the old or infimed. Oy, my back! 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • : 3 Nts from $339* pp all inclusive/ocean front adults only www.tinyurl.com/mm6bnu 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: or in White Lies case, just give up and go away. 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: http://tr.im/gYNP @mlp_130 there's no painless way. My trainer recommends interval or circuit t.. http://tinyurl.com/kqlejt 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: @VioletDelirium whether 2 hang out on roof or not - that is a challenge that i can appreciate! good luck!!! :) 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: @shellyplusfour on the 30th or 31st.... 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: looking for tattoo places in sc or nc! 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: @idiotben LOL! Well, I don't believes it's due to any vendettas. :0) DM or e-mail your # and address & I'll look into it for you. 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: Gardening today...hopefully no wasp stings or spider bites, already have enough of those! 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: the solution is ice cream, alcohol or ciggie. being a good boy I am going for ice cream 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: @OhhthatsMC Exactly...& that in itself makes it rare. its hard to find a guy thats a package instead of one or the other... x 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: Planning vacation in Dubrovnik. Anyone with hotel suggestions or places to visit/avoid? 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • sv: Lisa Madigan NOT running for Senator or Governor http://ow.ly/gM0l #twill #icot #tcot #ildirt #ilgop 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: Are all my callers grouchy this morning? Or do I just feel that way because I only slept for 3 hours? 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: @ansthai You should get a CES e-mail later today with your login already populated. Let me know if you don't get it or still have a problem. 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: Pop quiz for beginners: True or false - web hosting packages are easy on the budget. (answer coming later) 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: wow. it's very hot this morning. or maybe that's just my picante sauce. 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: @aiki411 So does Jeet Kune Do have any similarity with other martial arts? Or is it completely different from the rest? 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • sv: Lisa Madigan NOT running for Senator or Governor http://ow.ly/gLZY #twill #icot #tcot #ildirt #ilgop 07/08/09 02:52pm
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  • en: Debating on going to the emergency room or waiting another day.. per webMD it may be an umbilical hernia..::yikes:: 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: Anyone American/Canadian, or with a similar accent, who could record 5 seconds of speech for my album? Need 3 voices. 2 female, one male. 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: Morning:) been up for 10mins and brain/mind can't figure out if it's Tuesday or Wednesday all the days are officially meshing together 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: I wish that days were either 30 hours long or that I only needed 4 hours of sleep.... 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: That twadies n twentlemen is proof that runnin is good 4 ur health n builds strong ankles. So every1 go out n run 10 miles or start w 1-mile 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: I can't describe what I did in 160 char or less ... but know it reminded me of potter! 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: @triman5 - Yes, great one. (haven't run there in a year or so). Just head down the dirt road and follow the trail around the lake. 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: @JustinRyan or maybe I just need to go back to bed, since my brain is still fuddled. 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: @sridhar94 International or Independent? If you don't mind me asking. 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: is the Black Eyed Peas album that solid or do they just have wide fan base? 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: After royalty deal, Pandora offers 2 plans for big users: 99c/month for unlimited listening or $36/yr 4 ad-free sub w/ higher Q stream. 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: I have a meeting in an hour about whether we want to give away green totes or black totes at welcome week. I'm not kidding. 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: Totally Random. How much money ya'll want to bet its going to be Palin/Steele or Steele/Palin running in 2012. Hmm or maybe Bobby Jindal lol 07/08/09 02:52pm
  • en: I could go to bed, or I could watch baseball.. hmmm.. 07/08/09 02:47pm

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  • Sounds like a decent argument. Facebook is simple and not all the hype the media portrays twitter to be. Facebook is doing just fine without any big name advertising.
  • This thesis assumes that all of the people you do or don't want to know are all connected or can be connected to online. It speaks to a very limited demographic. Makes sense that it was promoted at a conference where there are a lot of like minds with like behaviors. Not everyone is on all three or even two of the networks. It is an interesting thesis for people on those networks, but I'm always annoyed by the assumption that a) everyone is connected and b) people know what they're doing when they're connected. Most don't fit both criteria.
  • Good point/s, Paolo. You're absolutely right that this is all predicated on people being available when/where you wish to build a connection. If that is not the case, you're forced to innovate on, or adapt from, your normal actions... Of course, I guess that's probably one reason that some people (but only a small group as you point out) find Twitter to be so stimulating. Being a constrained environment with few options for information exchange, it forces you to become creative with what you do as you cannot act as you would in email, on Facebook, or face-to-face.

    Thanks for you comment, Paolo. Very well put.
  • Hey Eric,

    As one who never did a MySpace profile, I agree with what you said about Facebook and Twitter. Also, your take on MySpace is inline with the commentary I've read other places and heard from all my friends that have made the MySpace to Facebook exodus. Twitter is very powerful for it's easy and speed of use. Facebook, for me, is for mostly personal use, and thus I have not added many of my co-workers. They read my blogs, but the day to day updates and joking around, I keep to those I know more personally on Facebook.

    Josh
  • Hey, Josh. That's definitely understandable. Do you find yourself doing more monitoring or engaging on Facebook? I feel like a lot of people, even if they use FB only for close friends and family, mainly monitor on there. Yes, they chat, like, and comment, but they also having a lot of FB friends that they don't really have interaction with.
  • Probably 65% monitor, 35% engaging on FB. I agree that their are a lot of FB friends I don't interact with regular, but I will occasionally, but that's life. No once interacts with more than 10% of their friends regularly off line. At least monitoring on FB you stay up with them more than you would've otherwise.

    Then their are times, like yesterday, where a high school friend commented on something I wrote, we commented back and forth on blogs, and then he emailed me to keep talking. We had only liked a couple status updates on each other in the month we had been reconnected on FB, then all the sudden we're talking enough to take in off FB.
  • Oh funny, I just went back to FB and see someone wrote this:

    "just caught up with reading facebook stuff for at least 3 days. love keeping up with my friends!"

    They are a 95% monitoring person. Perfect timing!
  • That definitely makes sense. I guess, it seems to me that this confirms that, yes, Facebook is for people you used to know, but it is also for people you want to keep in contact with... whether you used to know them or have gotten to know them more recently (as in the case of adding a new friend).
  • thinkmaya
    Great first video post Eric!
    Twitter is certainly the channel to connect with people you do want to know or you want to learn from, I think. Twitter is a super learning tool for me. It is the only tool of the three that can be both powerful as a personal tool(real connections) and a not so personal tool (just learning). Even the non-personal value can eventually be encashed in a personal relationship a number of times ....
    My thoughts on your great post :)
  • Thanks :-)
    Good point. There are so many uses not just for Twitter, but for the networks as well. I think Twitter though is a perfect medium for connecting with a niche without any large commitments... in that it is more of a one to one connection, whereas let's say you want to connect with PETA on Facebook. If you do, you really become parts of a group of fans. On Twitter, PETA might not really pay attention to you, but you're subscribed to its tweets and not those of its other followers necessarily.
    Anyhoo, just a thought your comment brought up.
  • Good 1st post Eric. I'm currently in the Seattle area and you're right about the weather. Your topic is spot on. At least I agree with it. As I get to know these different mediums of social networking they stand out in different ways and I think you've hit it on the head. So with that said, be careful on what you put on FB or any other social site and keep in mind the persona that you want to portray especially if you have a business.
  • Thanks for the heads up, Kenny. Hopefully, you're surviving in the heat. :-)

    Yeah, I don't tend to use FB in a private way, so there're very few pics of me, and my conversations are always PG. You might check out Derek Johnson, at Tatango, if you want to see some hardcore blending of professional and personal life.
  • Great first video blog! This is a topic that I constantly hear much debate over. I would have to agree that Facebook is a place to "monitor" friends. Sometimes I'm shocked to find out that friends that I have not spoken to in months seem to be completely updated on aspects of my life merely from "stalking" my Facebook profile.
  • Thanks, Arianna. Yeah, I can tell that people feel werid now and then (and I do as well) when we see each other, they ask "what have you been up to," I explain a bit, and then, they say, "Oh yeah, I saw on Facebook that you stayed at a beautiful resort here or there." 0_o
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