Thursday, February 27, 2014; 2:46:58 PM Eastern
Facebook vs Twitter in conversation
- Here's a great A-B example.
- I posted the same image to Twitter and Facebook.
- On Twitter, a nothing.
- On Facebook, a discussion!
- #### It's even worse
- Many of the comments I get on Twitter are really for someone else -- they're responding to the headline of a link I've posted, that I didn't write.
- And they're very often not responding to the story, just to the headline. And they respond as if I'm the author. Always leads to misunderstanding. Example.
- And 140-characters is a severe limit for people who are good writers, for people who aren't good writers (i.e. most people) it's impossible to understand what they mean.
- So you have to ask for clarification, if you have the patience, and the follow-ups are usually just as cryptic.
- I think Twitter is a failed experiment. Something about its limits needs to be eased. Or maybe it's time to start over, with a different idea altogether.
- #### Another A-B example
- A Facebook discussion emanating from a picture of me as a grad student in 1977, programming in the Unix lab at UW-Madison.
- The same picture posted on Twitter.