Facebook VS Twitter

Nowadays, there are many kinds of social media. Based on sidomi.com, there are more than 20 social media in the world. The main purpose of social media is to help people to communicate each other easily. For example is Facebook and Twitter. Facebook was found by Mark Zuckerberg and launched on February 2004, and Twitter was found by Jack Dorsey and launched on July 2006.

Facebook and Twitter are social media that very popular today. Although they are very popular and have a lot of users, they have some contrast differences. Facebook and Twitter are a social media that allow the users to post words. The words that you post on Facebook are called status, and the words that you post on Twitter are called tweets. Facebook is mainly used by individuals who wish to stay connected or toreconnect with people that they know offline. As well as maintaining a personal profile and post messages onanother user’s “wall”, users can upload photos and videos, share links, write long notes, send private messages, text and video chat, and play games.  However, Twitter is mainly used to communicate with other individuals with similar interests, regardless of whether the user knows one another of Twitter, and to follow updates from celebrities. Users can upload photos, share links, and send private messages.

On Facebook, the user can post some words with no limit, but on Twitter, the user just can post some word with no more than 140 characters.  Twitter has feature which called “trending topics”. It allows the users to know about what the popular topic or person that people talking about, but on Facebook, there is no a feature like this. Based on the resource, the Facebook users attain to 900 million users, but Twitter still has around 500 million users. For more detail, you can see the diagram below.

Now, we already know about founder, launch date, and the differences between Facebook and Twitter. Although they are equally as a social media they have a lot of differences, it depends on what the user’s purpose in using it.