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Recently, facebook launched new APIs that allow your applications directly access all of a user’s status, links, and notes via new methods and FQL calls. After this, we have heard lots of gossip on how facebook new api specially status api is going to kill twitter! What did you say ? I immediately disagreed on twitter! I wrote another blog on my old blog supporting twitter that it would never die in fact it will grow day by day. That time Facebook took status message seriously and I wasnt that much twitter addict like now, yet I believed that twitter will keep growing and no one can take twitter’s place.
What i’m thinking now? Well, I asked few questions myself before find the answer and these are the following questions ….
- Who use twitter and why they use twitter? Do you use facebook for same reason?
- How long you loggedin to Facebook?
- Does facebook show all status message on your home page?
- Is facebook status easy to search and find them?
- How many random people you have on your facebook account?
Ok, enough questions! Now let me come to the point. I have seen lots of comment on facebook status that says “what is this….what is that….what is sandbox?” – etc but never saw any comment against a tweet asking what does it mean! Why ? Because, these people who are using twitter are more professional and skilled. They are here to share and learn. You get some tremendous stuffs on twitter that none other tool will provide you that much needy information live!
Facebook friends don’t use their status for same reason of course. Often, I do miss their status as i’m not always loggedin to facebook. And when I want to check someone’s status I have to visit his/her profile and if i’m lucky I can see that. Why lucky? Because, if my friend does a lot of things then status message will go to next page or vanished! But in case of twitter I just have to type the person’s name and get the updates doesn’t matter when they had their last updates.
Other than that twitter is more public, anyone can search related tweet with simple word. It’s way easier to access and watch live tweet. There are lots of applications developed using twitter API that allow you to find real information you are looking for. I know there will be new and similar applications using facebook status API but they will never be worthy like twitter.
There are different purposes behind using twitter and facebook, you can include football/soccer in Olympic games but FIFA world cup will always have it’s excitement and viewers than your Olympic’s football game.