If there is one blog post recommended reading today, it is this one from Fred Wilson, who is also an investor in twitter.
Facebook has just launched something that will position itself really cleverly again at the center of user interaction. I (and everyone else, I guess) believe this will be massive, makes you admire Zuckerberg again. Wilson argues (correctly) for the different user scenarios – private (Facebook) vs really public (Twitter).
Some more thoughts on this, unsorted yet:
- Facebook has so much more leverage with it’s user base, that it will attract a huge number of users doing their status updates. So of course, there is a massive threat to Twitter in this.
- Twitter enables people like Guy Kawasaki or Stephen Fry to reach an audience of several tenthousand people. As a marketing tool, it is fantastic. Hard to imagine this to happen on Facebook.
- For me, anything that is on Facebook also is relatively public. The massive inherent momentum within Facebook that encourages you to connect with people whom you do not know that well is the reason for that.
Most importantly: I found, personally, that I do follow the people who matter to me much more closely and “intimately” on Twitter than on Facebook. Nothing to be found here that is not public, but the unidirectional follow concept of Twitter surprising level of relevance over the “connectedness” of Facebook.
