Facebook asks for a lot of information from users and grew its way into government contracts and safer high $value arrangements due to how much data they store.

Facebook asks for a lot of information from users and grew its way into government contracts and safer high $value arrangements due to how much data they store. Even if you're not "on" Facebook, people you know will establish a presence for you in Facebook's data. Twitter accounts are cheap and the platform only has value as long as advertisements can run unchallenged by a large number of users.