Can Twitter Really Replace Facebook?
by Tran, Harry ~ June 15th, 2009. Filed under: Quick Blast.
Can once-cool MySpace stage a comeback?
In this article the author says that Twitter will be the newest fad as it dominates the social network market.
“Gibs, of Nielsen, said there always will be new online social networks to challenge the old guard. The newest player is Twitter, a micro-blogging site where users post 140-character messages.
“We have already begun to hear rumbles that Facebook is beginning to wane and we all should be Twittering,” he said.”
I don’t think Twitter will out-do Facebook and become the #1 platform for social media. Facebook still offers exceptional value for its price, for most users that price being zero. It has a multitude of features that Twitter can barely scratch the surface of, pictures, videos, and friends lists. Twitter is a very essential basic system that offers great value but to trump Facebook as the go to medium for social networking it isn’t there yet.
During the past few days I tested out a few new methods for getting more Twitter followers and have already begun to notice the flock of Twitter spammers abound. This has nothing to do with Facebook anymore but I must say a service like Twitter is only as good as the network it contains and if every few accounts you encounter are spammers than what is the point of having a following network?
I hope Twitter will find a way to filter these spammers out of their network in some sort of fashion, I mean there are Twitter members I know who will throw in an affiliate link here and there during their tweets but than there are pure spammers who completely ruin the experience by spamming links and offers all day.
Yes I know Facebook has its own set of spammers, for anything popular there will always be someone trying to take advantage of the situation but it almost seems naive to say Twitter will out do Facebook, I see the two networks being able to work cohesively at best.
