LG Gone Wild Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 Please explain it to me in very simple but thorough terms and the purpose and the difference/benefit over Facebook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang!Zoom! Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 Twitter is picking up a newspaper filled with people you don't know for the most part. Facebook is sitting to the table with your friends and family, occasionally peeking at a magazine. Twitter has it's own language and spelling habits which will drive you insane at first, Facebook has spellcheck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OH_Homeschooler Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 Twitter is a lot more status-update driven. No annoying games, and you have to click links to see pictures. And you can be anonymous. You CAN connect with real life friends and family if they are also on it, but you can also just use it to follow random people and celebrities. And you can set up your Twitter account to be anonymous, if you'd like. Facebook has spellcheck. Really? No one on my friends list seems to know this. :glare: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang!Zoom! Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 The kid has a "school" twitter account - it's amazing how many folks will respond on it, social status or fame so to speak...doesn't really get in the way much. It's good for simple questions or compliments, but really amazing for research purposes, specialist/current events. Facebook is not so globally dense as twitter in my experience. If I hear of a news event that's unfolding, I go to Twitter and comb through hash tags or trending news- I don't even use the TV at all. Twitter affords a lot of news all at once on one "page" - Facebook, unless you have categories set up..is much more difficult. News makers tend to have more accounts on Twitter than they do Facebook. Facebook allows way more space to get a point across, Twitter is about two sentences long per post, unless one embeds fancy links to the full story. Twitter is also more fraught to deceptively market than Facebook, it's a pain in the neck to clean up those that "follow" you if your ID is wide open with no filters, that can be more than a little annoying. There seems to be much more "eww" on Twitter if you don't watch it carefully. There's definitely skills to each to develop, I think there's room for both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Another Jen Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 My Facebook page is full of family that I have not much in common with. My twitter feed is full of strangers who I not only agree with but wish I knew in real life. Kind of like here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgiana Daniels Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 Twitter moves much too fast for me and feels like I'm posting into a big black hole. Lots of status updates, but I don't seem to get the same kind of response as on FB. Much prefer FB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizabeth in MN Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 I use Twitter as a chat program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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