Facebook vs Twitter
Compare and contrast
Ganga Dahal
Eng. 1010, Fall 2015 Facebook and twitter are the two different biggest social networking site. Millions of people from all over the world use this both site daily. This both networking site are used to get connected with friends, family and to track their celebrities. People also used this both networking sites to get updated about what’s going on over the world. To open Facebook and Twitter, peoples have to get sign up with their full name and email address, and they have to create a user name along with password. Mostly younger people sign up on the Facebook, and elderly people sign up on the Twitter. This both networking sites allow people to post status, upload images,
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While, it is not necessary to know each other to share post in Twitter; people usually follow other people who they wants to track, either relatives or celebrities. In this both networking site, Users can express their opinions about content by replying. This both networking sites have different privacy setting. In facebook, multiples privacy setting are available to manage your profile privacy. One of the best privacy setting is, users are allow to choose peoples to saw their post. On the other hand, Twitter has only two privacy setting. User needs to share their post either for public or only for followers. Allowing less privacy setting make people feel that Twitter is not secure as much as Facebook. However, this both networking sites let to connect with each other 's account. Linking Facebook and Twitter make easier to share same post on both sites. Facebook and Twitter both have their own mobile application. Those mobile application are free to download. To chat through facebook mobile application, we have to download another application called Messenger, then we have to link this two application. Whereas, we don 't need to download any other application to use Twitter besides its
When we go on Twitter and interact with people, we are fulfilling our appetite for communication without putting in the effort and going outside and socializing.
When Twitter obtained the website in 2011, they eliminated the ability to manage any other social media sites. On TweetDeck’s dashboard you can make columns to manage different things like: mentions, likes, followers, messages, hashtags, etc. Posting tweets are almost as identical as using regular Twitter; you can only use 140 characters, and have the option to add pictures, videos, and links. With TweetDeck, users can schedule certain dates and times when they want tweets to be posted, and to what account if they have multiple ones. However, you cannot schedule tweets that have more than one image attached to them.
First of all, the use of social media such as Facebook and Twitter connect people and the world closely and conveniently. Technology
They can be related to your sport. Another advantage of Twitter, is you can join conversations with fans, journalists, and news outlets. If you do that, the media might pick you your news items and stories. Pinterest Pinterest is a photo sharing website that gives users the chance to post videos or photos, known as a collection of pins, usually with a a common theme, on their own or others'
The main target of Twitter's to be the first thing people check to start the day, and the first thing people go to when they to share their thoughts and see what's happening worldwide. However, the leading social networking sites worldwide as of January 2018 is Facebook by
Social networking sites have become popular over the years, like twitter, which allows users to present themselves through their tweets using photos, hyperlinks, or hashtags. Boyd (2010) argued that social media platforms like Twitter encourages members to use their actual identities but it does not mean people are presenting themselves online the way they do in real life.
On social media, each individual has the power to be influential and important. There is a freedom of expression on social media that we are allowed to express. A user on Facebook can post anything they want or anything they want for free.... ... middle of paper ... ...
The Popularity of Social Networking Sites In recent years, social networking sites have rapidly gained popularity among people of all ages. A large number of people have registered and become members of some social networking sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, and WeChat. Also, people spend a lot of time on these sites chatting, playing games, and making friends. Social networking sites have become a part of people’s lives.
Today social media has become a big influence on society. There are many different social media sites that allow people to interact with others. Such social media sites are Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. There are many more different sites, but these are the popular networks that are being used today. These sites allow you to connect with anybody you want to. Social media sites can make you feel connected with others and seem like the best thing, but at the same time it can be a weakness that many of us have.
As for today, whole world using some sort of technology. Everybody, or least every other person, has smartphone, laptop or other electronic devices which they are using for various purposes such as news, games, social media, studying, researching and etc. More on, all the gadgets and internet plans are at affordable prices. Therefore, there is no age or price limitations on media and they are being very popular in recent years. For example, Tweeting, blogging, texting, using Facebook, Instagram and other social media for personal or professional use has been increasing every day. “It has been reported that Facebook has over 1 billion active users and Twitter has over 140 million users. Approximately eight of 10 health care companies use social
The purpose between both Facebook and Twitter is to share one 's information on an online community. Facebook users can write a status with an unlimited character amount about what’s on their minds. For example, the user can express their views on a general topic, share life changing events, or even talk about an event they will attend. Twitter on the other hand, is based on little updates in the user’s daily life, called a tweet. Tweets have a limit character amount of one hundred forty, limiting the thought
Social media is becoming the most important and influential technological advancement in our country since the internet was created in the 1960s. For the longest time people were only limited to e-mails to make communication to one another and there were no large scale social media sites available. However, the internet started taking off in the early 2000s as new generations started bringing to the table new and more advanced ideas. Facebook was invented in 2004, where people were able to connect with whoever they wanted throughout the world to communicate and be able to share anything. On their
Internet has become a vital element in people daily lifestyles. People use smart phones, tablets, laptops or computers to access Internet. By the first decade of the 21st century, many Internet users use faster broadband Internet access technologies. As the Internet users grow, one of the Internet phenomenons that can be seen is social networking. Basically, people use social media to interact among people where they create, share or exchange information in virtual communities and networks.
Forbes estimated that in 2011, Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg were worth an estimated 50 billion dollars as a result of its growing popularity. It went from a social network just for Harvard Student to a worldwide phenomenon. Twitter as well has famous celebrities and personalities who are followed by millions. Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Katy Perry are the top 3 most followed people on Twitter, with over 14 million people following them and updated on their every single move. Besides the elite list of celebrities and famous companies such as Google or The New York Times using social media sites as an outlet to gain customers, one of the main reasons it is so successful is its worldwide and global appeal. People from first and third world countries are aware of it, and statistics show that one in every nine people on Earth is on Facebook, and Twitter is adding up to 500,000 users each day. Search engine giant Google, perhaps the most famous name on the internet has started their own social networking experiment, Google+, which experts have predicted will also become a powerhouse.
Title: Compare and contrast the presentation of visual information in two different types of media today, focusing on how effectively the information is communicated.