12 Responses to “Twitter Updates vs. Facebook Statuses”

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   Brandon Rae March 25th, 2009 at 9:42 pm

   Call me biased, but this comic is #win.

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   @paolopazzia March 25th, 2009 at 10:01 pm

   I Like the Soup comment. Typical twitter…
   Also the random song quote on the facebook status – Since yesterday i’ve been “Hello. Here I am” by Angels and Airwaves (I am not a 16 year old boy btw).

   As alwayz, great insights Ant.

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   cathy March 25th, 2009 at 10:54 pm

   You get the toe cramps too! Oh man their deadly! I digged that comment hahaha! And ur right when ur around ppl u feel like an idiot. Ill try the robot dance!

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   Pamela leak March 25th, 2009 at 11:20 pm

   I’m so glad I follow the guy who wrote this on twitter.
   This comic is definately #win. [:

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   Christopher L. Jorgensen March 26th, 2009 at 3:17 am

   Pretty funny. I hate to admit it, but I’m both those guys. I go to FB and I turn stupid.

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   antzimp March 26th, 2009 at 3:24 am

   Definitely guilty of that myself. It seems so natural on Facebook to just type in the lyrics to the song I’m currently listening to.

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   joey vescio March 26th, 2009 at 3:53 am

   Hey I resemble that remark ^_~ great job man!

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   Obaid Ashraf March 26th, 2009 at 11:15 am

   I guess, there’s no point in comparing. On Facebook, I have more personalized statuses – I have my real friends and family there. I can say just about anything (mostly the humor and interests would be common). What happens at Facebook, stays at Facebook.

   On Twitter, I don’t personally know almost 80% of the people that are following me! So I’m more careful to write only the stuff I’d like to ‘represent’ me out there. Some are business people I’d like to impress for business networking, some are my potential clients, some are competitors, some are just random folks that are following me, don’t know for what reason. And additionally, anyone can open up my twitter page and see what I’ve been up to.

   No comparison!

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   antzimp March 26th, 2009 at 6:34 pm

   There WAS no point in comparing. But ever since Facebook decided to make their entire website STATUS based, like Twitter, then we, the users, must obviously compare. But yes, I’m less likely to un-friend (unfollow on Twitter) someone on Facebook just because they post up lyrics to a new hip-hop song or random remarks about the shoes they’re wearing. I also post random status updates on Facebook so I’m no less like the buffoon-looking fellow on the right. In the earlier version of Facebook the status seemed to compliment your profile, it wasn’t THE PROFILE. In fact, I think the status was the least important thing cause it took the Facebook people SO LONG to remove the “is.” Now Facebook is trying to be Twitter all the while people are keeping the same context of their statuses. So, I drew this to compare why Facebook’s new status-oriented design is a big misstep, imho.

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    Obaid Ashraf March 27th, 2009 at 7:36 am

    Right, I agree to that. I just noticed (and tweeted) that Facebook just opened battles on multiple fronts with picture-sharing, link-sharing and content-generating portals etc. All of those categories have their own champs. And I agree with you, Facebook status should not become the major focus on that application. Facebook surely are looking to bite in to twitter somewhat with their live news feeds and all. But in my opinion, this is one battle they’d have a hard time fighting. The simplicity/beauty of Twitter is a killer.

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    Fake March 29th, 2009 at 5:07 am

    So a typical Twitter user is a mac-fag? The illustration screams that.

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    lol March 30th, 2009 at 4:25 am

    lol they both suck