Trent Brownrigg wrote:If we're talking about which one I like more overall then it is definitely Facebook!
If we're talking about which one I use for business more then it is Twitter. Although I still don't think it is very good for that.
Trent,
This actually one of the few times I'm of the opposite opinion with you.
Facebook to me is a hodgepodge of teeny bobbers and IM wannabes who spam me constantly wanting me to join their groups, programs, etc etc.
I do know of several good applications there that do take advantage of the huge amount of traffic and use it to help others. Causes is my favorite at Facebook and they do raise tremendous amounts of funds for Non Profits as well as increase the supporter counts etc.
Twitter, I'll have to say is nearly worthless if your talking conversion rates from your twits or relationships from most of the other marketers who spam your inbox etc.
What works extremely well for me personally at twitter is my twitterfeed. My blog and rss feed from several of my sites are pinged to twitter. Just as an example a recent comment I made on my sites 2.0 application was picked up at google within an hour and on page 1 first result no less for a pretty competitive keyword linking to the twitter feed.
By the next day the actual page took it's place and has remained there ever since. Twitter has excellent pagerank so twits can rank very well similar to high page rank forums posts.
The difference is the tweets link to your site, assuming your twitting from a feed, and get the SE's attention very quickly.
The SE's will then replace the results from twitter with your actual sites page normally if you have any decent clickthroughs and decent content on the page to begin with.
To me that's a huge difference between facebook and twitter.
Although I won't discount facebook's 100s of millions of members either. Just haven't had the time or inclination to utilize it like I do twitter since pinging my blog feeds is so simple, handsoff etc.
Cheers,
Zac
