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Tweets VS Facebook Statuses
Strange subject, I know and, at face value it doesn't seem to relate to writing. However, in my opinion it does.
A facebook status has essentially no word limit. A tweet, a little over 100. And yet, in my experience (maybe because of the people I follow, I don't know) but tweets say a lot more than statuses.
While fb statuses tell us what people had for their dinner and what their ex partners are up to, tweets give us amusement, profound statements, news stories, celebrity itiniaries, links to blogs, photographs, little snippets of people's lives.
There are downsides.You can't choose whether to accept someone as a follower so I get to stalk Stephen Fry, Julian Clary and Pink to my hearts content. Personally, I only comment on the tweets if I have something to say, and I wouldnt dream of abusing anyone, famous or not, but it happens. People are abused and a lot of them are vulnerable young people. I think that those of us who are older and more stable have an absolute duty to support them and protect them as much as we can from those who harass, take things out of context and throw it back in their faces, bring down, or abuse.
Back to the writing thing. I think it is much more productive to advertise on Twitter because all you need is a couple of people to retweet and your possible market expands by many hundred/thousand fold as compared to twitter.
You can find blogs and works of writers you like and people you admire and, for goodness sake I get to TALK to Stephen Fry (yes I go on about him because I lurve him) even though he doesn't talk back
It can also be incredibly annoying when somone retweens dozens of tweets by peole who say stupid things like... follow me and I'll give you a shout back... not sure what that means... but you can block that, just like anything else that pisses you off.
Another thing that strikes me is whether the fact that we have to distill our words make us more careful with how we use them??
I'm interested in how the two compare and Id be interested in anyone else's opinions on this.
A facebook status has essentially no word limit. A tweet, a little over 100. And yet, in my experience (maybe because of the people I follow, I don't know) but tweets say a lot more than statuses.
While fb statuses tell us what people had for their dinner and what their ex partners are up to, tweets give us amusement, profound statements, news stories, celebrity itiniaries, links to blogs, photographs, little snippets of people's lives.
There are downsides.You can't choose whether to accept someone as a follower so I get to stalk Stephen Fry, Julian Clary and Pink to my hearts content. Personally, I only comment on the tweets if I have something to say, and I wouldnt dream of abusing anyone, famous or not, but it happens. People are abused and a lot of them are vulnerable young people. I think that those of us who are older and more stable have an absolute duty to support them and protect them as much as we can from those who harass, take things out of context and throw it back in their faces, bring down, or abuse.
Back to the writing thing. I think it is much more productive to advertise on Twitter because all you need is a couple of people to retweet and your possible market expands by many hundred/thousand fold as compared to twitter.
You can find blogs and works of writers you like and people you admire and, for goodness sake I get to TALK to Stephen Fry (yes I go on about him because I lurve him) even though he doesn't talk back
It can also be incredibly annoying when somone retweens dozens of tweets by peole who say stupid things like... follow me and I'll give you a shout back... not sure what that means... but you can block that, just like anything else that pisses you off.
Another thing that strikes me is whether the fact that we have to distill our words make us more careful with how we use them??
I'm interested in how the two compare and Id be interested in anyone else's opinions on this.
