FACEBOOK VS TWITTER
A multi-purpose social networking platform, allowing users to chat, post photos and notes, and play games,
A built around the posting of short 140 character messages, or “tweets.” They are the two most popular social networks in the world. This comparison looks at their history, growth in user base, strengths and weaknesses.
History
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| -i did not active in facebook social -hehe |
Facebook was launched by Mark Zuckerberg, along with his college roommates, in February 2005. It was initially only intended for Harvard students, but eventually expanded to include students at other Boston colleges, Ivy League universities, and Stanford. The site gradually added support for other universities, before also becoming available to high school students. In September 2006, it became available to any users over 13. On May 17th 2012, the company went public. It was valued at $104 billion. Facebook’s user base is still growing rapidly. A chart showing its growth can be found here:http://www.benphoster.com/facebook-user-growth-chart-2004-2010/
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Twitter was founded on March 21st 2006 by Jack Dorsey and was launched on July 5th 2006. Twitter tends to be fairly secretive about its number of users, but it had explosive growth between 2009 and 2011, with 2 million tweets a day in January 2009, 32 million tweets a day in January 2010, 90 milliontweets a day in September 2010 and 200 million tweets a day in July 2011.
here i have done for making differentiation of the facebook and twitter
Website
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https://www.facebook.com
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https://www.twitter.com
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Features
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Facebook features include the, Friends, Fans, Wall,
News Feed, Fan Pages, Groups, Apps, Live Chat, Likes, Photos, Videos, Text,
Polls, Links, Status, Pokes, Gifts, Games, Messaging, Classified section,
upload and download options and others
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Tweet, Retweet, Direct Messaging, Follow People
& Trending Topics, Links, Photos, Videos
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Alexa
Rank
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2 (August 2014)
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11 (September 2013)
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Introduction
(from Wikipedia)
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Facebook is a social networking service launched in
February 2004, owned and operated by Facebook, Inc. As of September 2013,
Facebook has over one billion active users, more than half of whom use
Facebook on a mobile device.
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Twitter is an online social networking service and
microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based messages
of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets".
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Key
people
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Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO; Dustin Moskovitz, Co-founder;
Sheryl Sandberg, COO; Matt Cohler, VP of Product Management; Chris Hughes,
Co-founder
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Jack Dorsey, Chairman; Evan Williams, CEO; Biz Stone, Creative
Director
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Advertising
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Advertising supported in the form of banner ads,
referral marketing, casual games
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Advertising supported in the form of promoted tweets
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Instant
messaging
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Yes
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No
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Launch
date
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February 4, 2004
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July 6, 2006
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Number
of users
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1.28 billion (monthly active, March 2014)
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Over 500 million
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Founded
by
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Mark Zuckerberg
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Jack Dorsey
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Play
games
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Yes
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No
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Headquarters
location
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Menlo Park, California, United States
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San Francisco, California, United States
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Users
express approval of content by
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"Like", "Share", or "Comment"
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"Retweet" or "Favorite"
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Languages
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Available in 70 languages
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Available in 29 languages
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Number
of employees
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6,818 (as of March 2014)
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3,000 (as of 2014)
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Follow
trending topics
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No
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Yes
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Written
in
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C++, PHP, D
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JavaScript, Ruby, Scala, Java
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Add
friends
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Yes
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No
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Privacy
settings
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Yes
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Either public or private
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Revenue
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$7.87 billion (2013)
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$664 million (2013)
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Current
estimated value
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$104 billion
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$10 billion
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Post
length
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Unlimited
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140 characters
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Industry
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Internet, Social Networking, Smartphone App
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Internet
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Edit
posts
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Yes
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No
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Users
express opinions about content by
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"Comment" or "Reply"
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"Reply"
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Mention
users by
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Just the name (e.g. "User")
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The @ sign and then the name (e.g.
"@user")
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