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I think what you're finding is that facebook is far better for 'personal 2 way communication', whilst twitter is better for mass announcement. It's a different

by points 16y ago

I think what you're finding is that facebook is far better for 'personal 2 way communication', whilst twitter is better for mass announcement. It's a different scale of working. FWIW, I much prefer facebook, especially for things like family announcements.

glhaynes 16y ago
Well said. After struggling to "get" Twitter for a while, I've realized that I don't have to post on it. It's essentially a read-only medium for me. That's fine: I post on Facebook a lot and really enjoy the conversations there, but I don't like to post on Twitter because its conversation capabilities aren't great and, equally importantly, I don't have an audience! I'm not famous and most of the non-spam followers I have on Twitter are also Facebook friends. (Also, I personally really don't enjoy having to deal with the 140 character limit.) It's still really useful to me similarly to how many other web forums on which I'm primarily a lurker are useful.