DISQUS

Asfaq · 11 months ago

I agree with the author too. I follow the same practise of importing my tweets to FaceBook and I find that the conversations are far richer there than on Twitter itself. Maybe it is because the conversations are threaded, which make it more contextual when an outsider views them than on Twitter?

Louis Gray · 11 months ago

There has been a significant increase in responses to status updates on Facebook, and not just from the mainstream. People I know used to most often respond to me via FriendFeed are responding via Facebook at now with some regularity. But it's as I've always said, you should move to where the conversation is and not force it in one place. If it moves, I move.

Mona N. · 11 months ago

I have a different group of people I regularly interact with on Facebook than on FriendFeed (...and now Twitter, though I still don't really converse on Twitter). I've tried getting them on FriendFeed but it hasn't worked. As of right now, Facebook's iPhone app RULES and when I'm on the go, I'm more on Facebook than FF. Shocking, I know. ;) But Facebook's notification system beats both FF and Twitter, plus viewing from my phone is so. much. EASIER than the clustermess non-mobile site. Try it. Who knows, maybe you'll like it. ;) See you on Facebook, Duncan!

Scott Jarkoff · 11 months ago

That's pretty much what I do - interact with a certain group of folks on Facebook, a different group on Twitter and still yet a completely different group on FF. It's crazy how people are so afraid, if that is even the right word to describe their feeling, to try different services.

I guess the comfort of each service is, well, comforting so people just stick with what makes them comfortable.

che2on · 11 months ago

good work!
I found facebook very interesting than twitter...
however, some ideas are being derived from twitter by facebook..
the author of this article has expressed it so well...
i enjoyed reading this..
and digged it..

BjornTipling · 11 months ago

Facebook sucks. Blog posts that attempt to predict the future are generally 99.9999% wrong and simply link bait. Adding 'killer' to the title increases the posts shittyness. Why don't we leave the post mortems until after a death has occurred. Oh wait I know why, because the intention wasn't to write anything of value, it was to troll for responses and links.

che2on · 11 months ago

okay!

BjornTipling · 11 months ago

WTF Duncan, I just got an ad on your site with automatic audio about winning a free wii without any ability to turn the audio off. Maybe I'll just avoid the site in the future. :o

fulltimecasual · 11 months ago

interesting. i added the facebook app in early december too, and have started getting more conversations going with friends "irl" since. but i still get far more responses to tweets on twitter, possibly because i'm so spankingly witty and don't overtweet. :)

so while i'm connecting more on facebook these days because of the twitter app, its more like i'm visiting facebook 4-5 times a week, instead of once a fortnight. but the really noticable thing for me is my non-geek friends saying "you update facebook all the time, you must never leave it" leading me to explain twitter once again, and getting non-geeks interested in twitter for the first time in months...

Andrew Girdwood · 11 months ago

This happens to me too. One theory is that those who comment the most often on Facebook are people hungry for the sort of conversation Facebook can't give them. These are the same people who are likely to embrace Twitter if they gave it a go.

Sumant · 11 months ago

It's far too flimsy to state that one service is killing the other. I also update Facebook status via Twitter, but my interactions are far more instantaneous on Twitter than on Facebook. The potential for longer and more detailed commentary exists on Facebook, but it feels hollow to expect that for a 140-character comment with virtually no explanation or nuance. For a longer comment, I'll work on my blog, or post a Facebook Note. We're comparing apples and oranges here, once again.

One reason that Facebook holds an advantage over Twitter - user base. My Twitter contacts are a fraction the size of my Facebook networks. That doesn't mean they're as valuable, just that they are more numerous.

curiouslypersistent · 11 months ago

It depends on how you use each service e.g. I use Facebook purely for personal relationships and Twitter for a mixture of personal and professional

Mediacrank · 11 months ago

I think the reason I get more responses to my tweets on Facebook is that my friends actually know me versus being more like contact or connections on Twitter.

Scott Jarkoff · 11 months ago

I've had similar experiences with comments to my Facebook status messages. I chalk it up to simply a great deal of folks use Facebook all day, every day, and use it as their vehicle for interactivity. Rather than leave Facebook to @reply on Twitter or comment on FriendFeed, these users merely stay where they feel most comfortable - Facebook.

This will definitely not kill Twitter because of the power Twitter offers users of third-party tools and the simplicity of the service. Twitter is decidedly minimal whereas Facebook is monolithic. They both have utility and will continue to coexist methinks.

Daryl · 11 months ago

I don't like the facebook interface but I did install the twitter app. I think if twitter dies it won't be facebook that kills it.

Nick O'Neill · 11 months ago

Thanks for writing about this Duncan. I definitely think that there's the possibility that the conversation could "move to Facebook" as Louis Gray suggests. Hopefully it will soon be technically possible to integrate the two sites and theoretically that's one step away from eliminating Twitter altogether.

Personally I'm not leaving Twitter anytime soon but the volume of conversations on Facebook speak for themselves.

igorthetroll · 11 months ago

Duncan, Face Book is where people have a real conversation with people interested in talking. Twitter is where we broadcast aka Spam!

wecandobiz · 11 months ago

An interesting piece but I have to disagree. I also integrated Twitter and Facebook so that my Facebook Friends could see what I was Tweeting. The problem came that prolific Twitter users tend to use it with a work slant, whereas most people keep only real friends (or at least mainly friends) on Facebook. So when I started pushing work related content to my Facebook circle it was badly received.

It's also not clear to the Facebook community where the feed of upddates is coming from. So I get a few people respond to my Facebook status, but many more bemused with what "RT" means and why other updates have "@whomever" in them.

In short, for me it didn't work.

By the way, you are quite right in that it takes no time to put together a Twitter competitor with much the same functionality, but whatever you put together wouldn't have the support, would it? And history shows us that user (and, in turn, developer) adoption is key to something working, almost regardless of whether competitors offer more value and better functions.

Ian Hendry
CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ
http://www.wecando.biz

mike · 11 months ago

I think Twitter will be around a while. I think Facebook is worried that Twitter is stealing thier users

Scott · 11 months ago

You may also want to check out yonkly. It's the first "create your own" microblog to integrate with Twitter: http://yonkly.com

Noah David Simon · 11 months ago

I would argue that disqus is what is most exciting...

but what has hurt twitter is it's reputation. many people got into twitter because they could not legally make friends on facebook. now that twitter has gone fascist and is chasing people off... that traffic is going to the better interface... facebook! the lesson here is that technology has little to do with the quality of the interaction. it is about the administrations tolerance and ability to facilitate communities of people who like having each other around. Within a month an account of mine reaches around 1000 followers on twitter, but yet I get chased off. obviously facebook finally figured out the right community balance... and twitter will only survive by creating communities with boundaries. A block is just simply not enough.

Håkan · 11 months ago

Why ary you posting about this in a swing forum??

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