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Facebook vs Twitter (A Comparison)

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02 am Facebook vs Twitter (A Comparison) Jump to Comments With over 40,000 tweets per minute and new-user registration growth rate of 1500%, you would expect Twitter to give a close fight to the social networking giant Facebook. ‘Facebook’ being a closed platform the community considers it as a friend focussed channel.

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Choice of Form: Two Legal Seminars As Social Media

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

What functionalities do you think WordPress, vBulletin, and other common platforms need to be able to better develop communities? Beyond the core of people who want to demonstrate their expertise in a niche by blogging, will blogging continue to grow, or will community-oriented sites become more popular?

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Twitter versus Plurk: Not Even in the Same League

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

After using both closely, the comparison to Twitter shouldn’t even be the case. When it comes to a basis of comparison, nested conversations are probably the only aspect of Plurk that has brought it much success (save for the lack of downtime, though it does suffer some quirks here and there). You may have more than one.

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Facebook will surge ahead in India

The Marketing Blog

Although it emphasizes Orkut’s rapid decline in India some of the comparison parameters are quite interesting: Comparison table: Facebook & Orkut What are your thoughts on Facebook’s phenomenal growth in India? The article rightly compares the Orkut > Facebook transition to Hotmail > Gmail’s.

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The Great Social Media Traffic Debate: Niche or General Networks?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Let’s get ready to rumble… Generic network: StumbleUpon : In the blue corner we have Stumbleupon – one of the largest social bookmarking sites on the web. While some argue that StumbleUpon traffic is targeted, the broad nature of content categories and misclassification of content means this is rarely the case.

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Indian Companies on Twitter – A Usage Study

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Home About In the Media Facebook vs Twitter (A Comparison) How People Respond to Your Online Content March 8, 2010.1:39 39 pm Indian Companies on Twitter – A Usage Study Jump to Comments We recently did a study to understand how the businesses in India are using twitter. of tweets, tweet type, conversation type.

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Search Engine Statistics:: Google's share dips

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Popularity In a blog-post dated 15th March’ 10 , Hitwise had talked about Facebook displacing Google as the most popular website in US with a weekly market share of 7.07% in comparison to Google’s 7.03% Search Share Yesterday, in another study they announced that Google’s monthly search market share has dipped by 1%.