Comments on: It’s Facebook Vs. Twitter In the Race to Make the News Social http://gigaom.com/2011/02/11/its-facebook-vs-twitter-in-the-race-to-make-the-news-social/ Sun, 19 May 2013 03:00:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Basement Finishing http://gigaom.com/2011/02/11/its-facebook-vs-twitter-in-the-race-to-make-the-news-social/#comment-617825 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:55:11 +0000 http://gigaom2.wordpress.com/?p=296859#comment-617825 Facebook is like a class reunion. Twitter is like a huge roundtable discussion. Which is better for business? We use both and get results from both social connections. Facebook “Like” helps us get the “word of mouth” connections from friends and actual customers, while “Tweets” bring us business from business people or businesses itself. I would suggest both platforms.

Great points you mentioned in you articles. Thanks

]]> By: Peter http://gigaom.com/2011/02/11/its-facebook-vs-twitter-in-the-race-to-make-the-news-social/#comment-610223 Sun, 20 Mar 2011 06:22:12 +0000 http://gigaom2.wordpress.com/?p=296859#comment-610223 Facebook is less interested in the user experience as in finding more and more ways to make money of their user demographic data information.

]]> By: Cody R http://gigaom.com/2011/02/11/its-facebook-vs-twitter-in-the-race-to-make-the-news-social/#comment-598236 Mon, 21 Feb 2011 20:13:01 +0000 http://gigaom2.wordpress.com/?p=296859#comment-598236 Getting your “social news” from from sites that were originally built to do something different, and that haven’t changed their platforms to deliver news effectively and efficiently, is probably not the best long term solution.

The Twitter community “hacked” Twitter to us it as a social news service, but why can’t you just follow “news” if that’s what they want to provide? I have to follow people and hope they deliver the news to me.

Blatant promotion, but it’s relevant to the convo: If you could take Twitter and start over to specialize in social news distribution, what would that look like? I think it would look like PoundWire (the beta preview is going on over at x.poundwire.com).

If you want good, relevant, and personalized social news, follow news topics. It’s that simple. And if you’re a source of news, post directly to people who care about your topics.

]]> By: Its Facebook Vs. Twitter In the Race to Make the News Social - techtime's posterous http://gigaom.com/2011/02/11/its-facebook-vs-twitter-in-the-race-to-make-the-news-social/#comment-592986 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:50:23 +0000 http://gigaom2.wordpress.com/?p=296859#comment-592986 [...] — but that goal could see Facebook clash with Twitter, which is busy doing the same thing.Source:http://gigaom.com/2011/02/11/its-facebook-vs-twitter-in-the-race-to-make-the-news-social/ [...]

]]> By: Akshay http://gigaom.com/2011/02/11/its-facebook-vs-twitter-in-the-race-to-make-the-news-social/#comment-592877 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:13:14 +0000 http://gigaom2.wordpress.com/?p=296859#comment-592877 Interesting read. Makes sense that Facebook isn’t trying to push in that direction but is hoping apps/developers help them head that way. News is a natural fit for Twitter as its an app where users are interested in learning what people that they think are important have to say. But with Facebook being so much more “restricted”… its trickier.

]]> By: Eric http://gigaom.com/2011/02/11/its-facebook-vs-twitter-in-the-race-to-make-the-news-social/#comment-592321 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 04:50:27 +0000 http://gigaom2.wordpress.com/?p=296859#comment-592321 Why does it have to be the two websites populated by the most idiots?

]]> By: vivek swarnakar http://gigaom.com/2011/02/11/its-facebook-vs-twitter-in-the-race-to-make-the-news-social/#comment-591893 Sun, 13 Feb 2011 09:08:36 +0000 http://gigaom2.wordpress.com/?p=296859#comment-591893 Very interesting and timely article, given the significant role played by both Facebook and Twitter in recent global events. The fact that the services mentioned in the article are being developed to contextualize social media to news, highlights the need that Twitter and Facebook leave unaddressed. Here’s a service that’s being launched to cater to this specific segment.

http://nuuzit.com

It will be interesting to see how social news evolves.

]]> By: KEE http://gigaom.com/2011/02/11/its-facebook-vs-twitter-in-the-race-to-make-the-news-social/#comment-591576 Sat, 12 Feb 2011 19:07:42 +0000 http://gigaom2.wordpress.com/?p=296859#comment-591576 I’ll visit Twitter several times a day, Facebook.. maybe once a week

]]> By: links for 2011-02-12 | A Web editor's tale http://gigaom.com/2011/02/11/its-facebook-vs-twitter-in-the-race-to-make-the-news-social/#comment-591365 Sat, 12 Feb 2011 09:03:44 +0000 http://gigaom2.wordpress.com/?p=296859#comment-591365 [...] It’s Facebook Vs. Twitter In the Race to Make the News Social: Tech News and Analysis « (tags: facebook twitter publishing onlinenews news socialmedia) [...]

]]> By: Mathew Ingram http://gigaom.com/2011/02/11/its-facebook-vs-twitter-in-the-race-to-make-the-news-social/#comment-590948 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:04:22 +0000 http://gigaom2.wordpress.com/?p=296859#comment-590948 That is definitely a risk, Brad, I agree. Thanks for the comment.

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