Man has always been a social creature and has constantly developed ways to communicate with friends and loved ones using the latest technology. Social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter have gained popularity in recent years. Though they have similarities, both are distinct in the kind of services they offer to their users.
At the start, Facebook was a site where people could inform their friends and loved ones about what was up in their lives through status updates. Its scope was pretty much limited to a person's own network.
In recent years, though, Facebook has expanded extensively to include the applications that has made it the most popular social networking site. The interactive games, fan pages, classified ads, as well as the business advertisements have all driven the popularity of Facebook sky high.
Twitter, like Facebook, offers a way to broadcast a person's status updates. They differ in that Twitter focuses exclusively on status updates.
Unlike Facebook, however, Twittter allows people you don't know to see or 'follow' your status updates. Twitter has made man's need to share and interact as it's bread and butter - and done it quite successfully. With Twitter, people with similar interests and ideas are brought together through 'tweets'.
People on Twitter are not about privacy. They want to be heard, they want to connect. A lot of celebrities are using Twitter as a way to communicate with their fans among others. Recently, celebrity tweets have become a hot way to advertise with one tweet going as much as $25,000.
Tweets from people are tagged and thus people who are interested in those tags can see those tweets. If it interests them, then they can choose to follow a person's tweets which will then connect them to that person, much like becoming 'friends' on Facebook.
If you want to know which one is better then it really depends on your needs. It's not uncommon for people to use both Facebook and Twitter at the same time. After all, two is definitely better than one where man, the social animal, is concerned.
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