Social Networking sites are very powerful pages on the internet. They allow us to have a personal space in the online world for friends to link up with us. For today's blog entry I have visited Twitter to find out more about it. Comparing with Facebook, Twitter is very different indeed. Many people refer Twitter as a micro blogging site.

Like Facebook, Twitter allows a user have his or her own personal page. But these pages each comes with their own differences. For Twitter, a home page displays basic information such as your number of tweets, your followers, and the people whom you are following. In the main body of the page will be tweets made by you and your followers as seen in the image below.


As for Facebook, your profile pages contain your wall which is for you to put up posts or for friends to leave notes and comments for you. Personal information about you can be found at the side bar. As you can see from my own Facebook profile page below.



Although both may seem similar in a few aspects, facebook gives users more flexibility with the content of that you can post. Twitter has limited postings to be of 140 words or less. I believe this is to give greater mobility to users of Twitter since it is advertise as a micro blogging site, hence postings should be kept short.

One key feature that Twitter is lacking in comparison with facebook is the apps, there are various kinds of apps on facebook to enhance our online experiences and many of those revolve around games. As one can see below, I have added quite of few of these apps and I must admit that they are a great source of entertainment.


Games on facebook also makes use of its social networking principle and friends can come together to achieve common goals in games. Games are a great way to bond with friends especially when one may be too busy for a physical meet up.


Another key differences is sharing of photos. Twitter only lets you embed a single photo in a tweet and you have to go off site to look at it. Facebook on the other hand, allows all uploaded photos to be display on your personal page and through tagging, friends will also get a copy of the photo in their page as well. This is a very useful for sharing a huge amount of photo among friends.


Friends are also able to comment on the photo and they provide a good place for us to discuss on the happenings of that very day.

So which is better? Both have their up points and my solution is why just stick to one social networking site, get both of them! Twitter provides a excellent platform for close friends to obtain small updates in your daily life. They help us feel connected to our friends even though we are not physically together.

Facebook on the other hands, have apps for us to use and games to enjoy. We can play such games with our friends and help make our bond of friendship stronger. In addition, the site provides a great way to share photos and it gives up more flexibility in customizing our personal pages.

Long live Twitter and Facebook! =P