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.
I was just testing uberVU, a paid social media analytics service for doing a comparison between Twitter & Facebook and the results that it shows are quite interesting to say the least. uberVU displays results as the number of reactions across different platforms where reactions mean the number of ‘comments’ or ‘shares’ about a particular topic.
Overall there are about 477k reactions for Facebook on all platforms whereas twitter has 541k reactions in total.
Distribution Platform :: Twitter
On Twitter, there are about 366k (47.5% ) reactions for Facebook which means that Twitter leads on its home-ground with 403k (52.5%) reactions.
A couple of inputs from this statistic:
- A large part of social comments or shares about ‘Facebook’ happen on twitter itself as the number is around 77%. (366k reactions out of a total of 477k reactions).
- Although Twitter wins, the results are fairly close indicating the open nature of conversations that are taking place on Twitter platform.
Distribution Platform :: Facebook
Facebook dominates on its own platform with about 72k (92.6%) reactions. However, in terms of the quantity this is no where near the number of reactions on Twitter. Reasons could be many e.g. ‘Facebook’ being a closed platform the community considers it as a friend focussed channel.
The only other place where Facebook scores over Twitter is on the Disqus platform but there also it is a close fight b/w the two. On other platforms like Youtube, Friendfeed and WordPress ‘Twitter’ dominates.
Mashable Community’s Opinion
Obviously the number of reactions cannot be directly translated to the likelihood of a user joining either of the two networks. However, the numbers in these graphs are in contrast to a user-poll conducted by Mashable about 4 months ago.
In that poll there were 5000 + votes with the community voting in favor of Facebook.
Pickfu’s Take
You might be aware of Pickfu.com, a site where you can do cheap and instant market research surveys. Equally interesting is the result of a similar survey conducted on Pickfu.com. ’43’ respondents have voted in favor of Facebook !
Although it is a paid survey, you might be interested to read some of the comments by the survey takers.
From a Facebook fan
I hate Twitter, I think people on it think they are too self important. No one cares what you are doing at all times.
From a Twitter lover
I think twitter is less pretentious and more user friendly
Your Thoughts?
What is your take on this debate between Facebook and Twitter. Do you actually think there is a real fight between the two? Which one would your prefer? Do you think features and functionality of one of these supercedes the other?
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Facebook is meant for social networking while Twitter is meant for Blogging. The purpose of both the sites are different. Don’t mix them though they look very similar.
I hate Facebook but love twitter.the time is not far away when twitter will replace Facebook.
Well as per social networking point of view, Facebook scores will always be high. However twitter is also a great online platform where we can share and follow great thoughts and ideas.. Both has their own unique qualities and differences. We just have to find out.
No second thought on this comparison! Facebook is much social than twitter is. I Guess!
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if u ask me, whether someone uses FB or Twitter depends on the ‘purpose’.
FB is more about friends and family. Connecting with everyone around u in a very user friendly way through wall posts, pics, vids, chats, messages, groups, pages and even apps. FB might also appeal more to the youth, seeing that it has many different games in its apps, which can be pretty much addicting.
And furthermore u can control who can see ur posts, pics, vids or watever. u can limit ur stuff 2 ur friends or even include ur friends’ friends. or u can just make it 100% private full stop.
ppl have criticised it for being non-user friendly but in my opinion it’s seriously easy to navigate around and beginners most definitely wont have much of a problem getting the flow of it.
Twitter would probably be more attractive to the business sector. things get public, u basically sorta ‘advertise’ urself and ppl can just take a peek and comment. when ppl tweet, its more of like being on a stage and showing ppl wat u think or watever.
of course, Twitter is also easy to navigate around but for beginners things can get a bit hard at first. but eventually ppl will get it though dis is already a down for Twitter, since some impatient ones would just quit straightaway.
and u can just connect to almost anywhere via Twitter so its also really incredible in its own way. Twitter is also a great place to make new friends so those who really luv 2 connect would probably luv Twitter.
OVERALL VERDICT:
you just cant compare these two sites. they seem similar but their concepts r actually pretty different.
BUT FOR ME:
i prefer just getting around my old and current friends and family members so i go 2 FB more often. and personally FB is also easier to use…. so yeah.
But overall its just a matter of opinion and ‘purpose’.
must say this is an interesting post, and I liked the way the topics had been broken down the with mashable surveys and so on.
There are fans to both mediums, I am personally a fan of both since I have a different persona on each network.
One thing, thats good about facebook is its a closed network. If I go by the pure word of mouth phenomenon there is surely a more trust associated with a friend rather than a random tweep.
So it would also be good to have some kind of stats on conversions from the mentions from either network.
But I do agree with one thing about twitter: quite a few are just too full of themselves.
look forward to more posts!
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