Comments on: Tweets? In /my/ Facebook?

By: Gregg Scott

Gregg Scott — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 10:45:41 +0000

The best way to describe Twitter to Facebook users is that essentially Twitter is your Facebook status.

Perhaps the easiest way for FBs to do Twitter initially is to use the Twitter Facebook app which sends your Twitter post to your FB status update.

Eventually you will build a Twitter community just your presence there. There is an option which won’t send a Twitter post that has the @ reply at the start of it so as not to confuse FB friends.

Occasionally I will post directly in FB if my comment is more personal. Other times I will pop over to Facebook and delete some updates if they seem out of context.

By: hypatia

hypatia — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:26:31 +0000

Ugh, thread support for DM’s would be so nice. I kinda hate them and try to move conversation to email or IM right away.

I consider the way following (not friending, remember :) ) works on Twitter to be a feature rather than a bug. It’s explicitly a different social context than on Facebook.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:06:45 +0000

The one thing I like about FB over TW is the requirement to have friend requests approved. TW has a lot of TWATS (People who follow you just to get you to look at their profile. You can tell because they are following 1000s of people. Who on earth can read that many posts?!?!) and then there are the TWITTERWHORES (people who try to build up followers to fill their narcissistic tendencies). Either way, I wish something could be done about them. I don’t often have unknown people adding me as a friend on facebook.

I also wish that twitter had real thread support for DMs !

By: hypatia

hypatia — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:29:31 +0000

Hey Andrew,

I tend to post the same kinds of things to Twitter as I used to post to my Facebook status… just more often. I have a lot of non-techies on my Facebook account as well as on Twitter, so I just figure they will ignore the nerdier posts :)

Not sure what to suggest in your case; different audiences are just different sometimes :/

-Leigh

By: Andrew Louis

Andrew Louis — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:25:30 +0000

I had it running for a while but turned it off.

My Facebook friends and Twitter followers are two pretty different crowds. Worse, a lot on Facebook didn’t even realize that the updates were coming from Twitter. After a few techy tweets, someone even posted: “I haven’t understood any of your recent status updates.”

As a result, I started second guessing myself every time I was about to post to Twitter – having this kind of hangup doesn’t make for the best Twitter experience.

Any tips on how to get around this?