Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Faceoff In Viral Marketing: Facebook vs Twitter

The two titans in the viral marketing are Facebook and twitter twitter though only has a small number of users of Facebook. At the time of this writing, twitter has around 3 million users, compared with 200 million for Facebook, but all the buzz about twitter.

Being a second user online viral marketing services, I can certainly see why twitter trounces Facebook in many ways, but he can knockout the champion? Let's start by looking at some of the excess chatter on Facebook.

5 Benefits twitter:

  1. It's easy to get followers
  2. It's easy for people to follow, does not have the permission required, and some of the rules and restrictions.
  3. Very simple and fast, up to 140 characters per? Twitter?
  4. Alias allows
  5. Searchable, complete with profile views
Now let's take a look at some Facebook has advantages:
  1. Fan page features
  2. Better support for multi-media, although this is an increase in chatter
  3. Creating trust
  4. Very viral
  5. Event features page
In all, Facebook is far more complex than twitter. And that is far more complex and narrow to get friends on Facebook. Friends you must agree, and if you are not a friend, you can not see people from all over the profile.

Facebook also has some restrictions archaist add friends. There are friends threshold, and if you cross the limit of Facebook will disable your ability for friends to add the amount of time unspecified. And they did not publish the threshold so it's a guessing game.

And if they violate the rules and restrictions mysterious too many times, Facebook will disable your account permanently, and you must start with a whole new account and 0 friends. I know some people who have developed this happen to them after a friend list of friends several thousand. And they do not even understand what they do wrong. Ouch! I'm doing my best to avoid this.

I have violated "mysterious friend add threshold." When I get Slapped by Facebook I can not add new friends for more than a week. Significantly reduce the number of I invite my friends every day and still had a nasty threatening email from them.

If you want to start marketing for the virus in check chatter it's ease of use, short messages, too, and the lack of regulations and restrictions. The point, I have found that a lot of fun and you can learn a lot of people post interesting info!

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