Although I've never really used it, I always conceptually preferred the Twitter everything-is-public model over the Facebook faux-privacy model. For two reasons

Although I've never really used it, I always conceptually preferred the Twitter everything-is-public model over the Facebook faux-privacy model. For two reasons: 1. It's more honest. With Facebook, you are given the illusion of sharing information only with your friends, but it's actually ...with your friends, and Facebook, and anyone Facebook chooses to share it with. Cambridge Analytica being the highest profile example. When you tweet, the expectation is that whatever you said is now On The Internet, a matter of permanent record. 2. It opposes the network effect. Twitter doesn't force me to create an account in order to view a tweet. Or, from the other perspective, if I post on Twitter, I'm not requiring anyone who wants to read my stuff to sign up as well. It's closer to a microblogging platform.