Twitter and Facebook
Facebook and Twitter has become one of the hottest topics among the World and almost everyone participatw on it. Just the matter of updating or not. Believe it or not, most of the people around me are into these 2 things only. And with these 2 things, they can spend hours and even days on it. Interesting? What so fun about those anyway?
Privacy or no?
Some may agree that with Internet, there’s no privacy. But some people logged into Twitter to void their own privacy by telling the whole World what they’re doing and where are they. Who to blame? Twitter was a “How are you today?” platform for members to provide daily information; Facebook was a social network where friends link to each other. Nowadays they are becaming an IM as well as a marketing tools. Weblog has PPP (pay per post); Facebook has group to mass market a certain product or service; Twitter, will have a PPA (pay per advertise) sooner or later.
It’s an IM, in a way
Correct me if I’m wrong, with reply-enable and comment-enable, who wouldn’t take the grant of it to keep writing? Twitter gave 2 choices, you can either reply on Twitter or send a private message, all using only one form. Facebook status is closely linked with Twitter. So you ask if it is an IM, I would say yes.
Research, survey, focus group, you name it
How many of you did a research or questionaire using Twitter? As long as you have some niche followers, you’ll definitely get responses. This created a thin line between qualitative and quantitative research. Qualitative is a research depending on majority, qualitative research, a quality answer or a common one, focus group. Twitter is known for very personal, as well as Facebook, but we don’t know how quality the answers are.
Marketing tools
How can’t they become a marketing tool when most of them are widely used/seen/visited everyday.
Both Twitter and Facebook was estimated more than 7million visitors per day by StatBrain. Many companies have Twitter and weblog, especially freelancer. Most of the freelance web designers that I know has a Twitter account and ready to showcase their portfolio and knowledge on their field.
In the end of the day, the whole thing is depend on how you look at the service itself. Some people like the interactive Twitter and Facebook has, especially games developed in Facebook, championing each other in certain game. However, I personaly don’t like social network site too much. These social network is selling their database for profit, your email, time online, location and etc are all in their system tracking. Or you have a better idea of how they profit from with these free services.