Twitter vs. Facebook

I’m currently faced with a small dilemma…

I have been a longtime Twitter user, which is a pretty one-dimensional and simple networking tool, but in recent times far more people in my more immediate zone of relationships are all over Facebook. Preaching a sermon series called “Beyond Facebook” may not have helped in this regard. The bulk of my Twitter connections are in the US.

For a while now, though, I have been updating both services with my status changes. Now I’m starting to wonder whether it’s worth keeping both running, and re-assessing my rationale for participating in each of them.

In a lot of ways I prefer the simplicity of Twitter, but Facebook seems to have the numbers in my world at the moment.

Perhaps I should preach a series entitled “Topping Twitter”…?

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3 Responses

  1. Twitter will never achieve the ubiquity that facebook has – it’s a handy tool but doesn’t offer the flexibility and versatility that facebook does in the number of ways you can use it to communicate.

    Plus many people are attracted to the other features of facebook – sharing photos, posting links and other info… and of course all the other silly games and things that I try and ignore mostly.

    If you’re happy to monitor both then keep both but if it’s one or the other, I’d go with the ‘book.

    Baggas - January 30th, 2009 at 11:02 am

  2. I’ve got TwitterFeed (http://twitterfeed.com/) sending my Facebook Status updates to Twitter so that both can be updated by one service.

    Rodney Olsen - January 30th, 2009 at 1:40 pm

  3. yeah, i currently use ping to update both. it’s not so much the updating that’s an issue… more the matter of keeping up with both, which just seems a bit much at the moment.

    ob1 - January 30th, 2009 at 2:03 pm