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• 05 Dec 09
  

  Jason K

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  Kristina Hoeppner

  also great comments

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• 30 Oct 09
  

  Patti Porto

  "Some thoughts on Twitter vs. Facebook Status Updates"

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• 29 Oct 09
  

  Alexander Vieß

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  Michael Walker

  Someone to follow...Good deeper look at FB vs. Twitter

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• 28 Oct 09
  

  Chris Hill

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  Adrienne Michetti

  An interesting post about how people use the two sites differently, and why.

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• 26 Oct 09
  

  George Roberts

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  • There are two critical structural differences between Facebook and Twitter that are essential to understand before discussing the practices: 1) social graph directionality; 2) conversational mechanisms.
  • Facebook's social graph is undirected.
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  • • Reciprocity is an essential cultural practice in Facebook
    • Twitter, on the other hand, is fundamentally set up to support directionality. I can follow you without you following me.
    • there's also a tremendous opportunity for everyday individuals to develop a following.
    • Thus, a person's Twitter page is truly the product of their self-representation, not the amalgamation of them and their cohort.
    • Those using Facebook are primarily concerned with connecting with those that they know (or knew in high school). The status updates are an invitation to conversation, a way of maintaining social peripheral awareness among friends and acquaintances
    • For the most visible, Twitter is a way of producing identity in a public setting.
    • In short, the difference between the two has to do with the brokering of status.
    • This is what Terri Senft has long called "micro-celebrity." Alice Marwick has been extending Terri's ideas to think about how audience is brokered on Twitter (paper coming soon)
    • What makes Twitter work differently than Facebook has to do with the ways in which people can navigate status and power, follow people who don't follow them, at-reply strangers and begin conversations that are fundamentally about two individuals owning their outreach as part of who they are. It's not about entering another's more private sphere (e.g., their Facebook profile). It's about speaking in public with a targeted audience explicitly stated.
    • I'm pushing the edges of new practice re Network Weaving and self-organizing. I want to hang out with other innovators and hear what they are saying and reading, so that my thinking is enriched. I want to try out my latest thinking with other people who know enough to critique well. And, I want to meet new people so my ideas don't develop in isolation but become better as others riff on and with them. I want to find people who want to collaborate. All of this happens on Twitter.
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  Mark Rabnett

  The functional act of constructing a tweet or a status update is very similar. Produce text in roughly 140 characters or less inside a single line text box and click a button. Voila! Even the stream based ways in which the text gets consumed look awfully

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  Rob Jacklin

  Some thoughts on Twitter vs. Facebook Status Updates

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  • The status updates are an invitation to conversation
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  Rem Palpitt

  Different social media spaces have different norms. You may not be able to describe them, but you sure can feel them. Finding the space the clicks with you is often tricky, just as finding a voice in a new setting can be. This is not to say that one space is better than the other. I don't believe that at all. But I do believe that Facebook and Twitter are actually quite culturally distinct and that trying to create features to bridge them won't actually resolve the cultural differences. And boy is it fun to watch these spaces evolve.

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  Jeremy Price

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  Dean Shareski

  danah boyd does a nice job distinguishing between these two.

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  alisa perren

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  Andrea Zellner

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• 25 Oct 09
  

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  • What makes Twitter work differently than Facebook has to do with the ways in which people can navigate status and power, follow people who don't follow them, at-reply strangers and begin conversations that are fundamentally about two individuals owning their outreach as part of who they are.
  • It's not about entering another's more private sphere (e.g., their Facebook profile). It's about speaking in public with a targeted audience explicitly stated.

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