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Facebook vs Twitter

Which is better Facebook or Twitter?  I prefer Facebook over Twitter.  That's a better and fairer question to be asked.  I use both tools and will continue to do so for the feasible future.

It is not an "either, or" situation.  You should continue to use both.  And I would further say you should use both.  The article below has some good pros and cons of both Twitter and Facebook.

I primarily like Facebook because of its "huge, rapidly growing installed user base".  Also, it has a developing "gift giving" module.  Probably, my biggest dislike is the "bigness" which requires time to master.

I most like Twitter because of its requires you to be brief to get your initial message out.  You have to get people insterested in 140 characters.  It is a microblogging application.  My biggest dislike is the "newness" of the application.  

Facebook vs Twitter.

So Which Social Network is the Best?

While zealots will immediately point to either Twitter or Facebook as being superior, the truth is that each has its advantages and disadvantages and will tend to appeal more to different types of people and for different reasons. Each can have great or little value to anyone; it really depends on what you are trying to accomplish in a given situation. Consider some of the pros and cons of each network:

Getting Ready to discuss Seth Godin's Tribes

Seth Godin wrote a six-part blog post about his new book, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us , on the Social Edge. 

On Thursday, January 15, the Smaller Indiana's Indy Business Book Club will discuss Seth Godin's Tribes.  Of course, I will capture our discussion on this blog space.

Tribes Used To Be Local — Social Edge.

Now, the Internet eliminates geography.

This means that existing tribes are bigger, but more important, it means that there are now more tribes, smaller tribes, influential tribes, horizontal and vertical tribes, and tribes that could never have existed before. Tribes you work with, tribes you travel with, tribes you buy with. Tribes that vote, that discuss, that fight. Tribes where everyone knows your name. The professionals at the CIA are a tribe and so are the volunteers at the ACLU.

There's an explosion of new tools available to help lead the tribes we're forming. Facebook and Ning and Meetup and Twitter. Squidoo and Basecamp and Craigslist and e-mail.

There are literally thousands of ways to coordinate and connect groups of people that just didn't exist a generation ago.

All of it is worthless if you don't decide to lead. All of it goes to waste if your leadership is compromised, if you settle, if you don't commit. Many tribes.

Many tools. I'm writing to you about both. The market needs you (we need you) and the tools are there, just waiting. All that's missing is you, and your vision and your passion.

Use of Texting Messaging by the Obama Campaign

This was great article, from the "horse's mouth".  It provided a "behind the scenes" look at how the Obama Campaign used text messaging and other social media technologies (Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and MySpace).  Barack Obama's Text Messaging Guru Talks to the Ticket.

Each media had it own rules of engagement, pros and cons!