Facebook borrows the idea of Hash tags from Twitter

Recently, Facebook added a new feature of Hash Tags. For people familiar with twitter, this is the same thing that Twitter has been doing all through out.


On Twitter, you can follow conversations using hash tags because there is nothing like posts and comments, no system of organised threads like Facebook. Which makes me come to my point, does Facebook even need Hash tags ??

Its actually very annoying, people will now use Hash Tags for spamming and other purposes. On Twitter, Hash Tags were necessary so as to surface conversations and such is the nature of the micro blogging medium that you can follow random topics. Facebook on the other hand is way too much closed in its approach. You have limited people who you can interact with and whose status updates you can see.

I believe, more than anything, Facebook has earned itself the title of Copycat rather than innovator. It earlier copied the blackberry messenger style double ticks in its chat so as to notify whether the recipient has tread the message or not. Not to mention all the talk surrounding the very idea behind Facebook having been taken from some one else.

Brace yourself for all the mad spamming, all thanks to uncle Zuckerburg.

Twitter buys TweetDeck for $50 Million

TweetDeck is one of the most popular twitter clients. Almost one-third of twitter users use TweetDeck to tweet. Twitter must have thought that its not a good idea to let TweetDeck enjoy so much autonomy, hence this buy-out was inevitable.

TweetDeck was initially in talks with UberSoft. UberSoft is a company that has been on a buying spree of late. The company has been buying many twitter clients in the recent past.

The exclusivity deal with UberSoft ended this April and hence, TweetDeck could respond to the offer made by Twitter. UberSoft was ready to pay around $30 Million for TweetDeck whereas Twitter is paying nearly $50 Million.

There were speculations that UberSoft may start a rival micro blogging site to compete with Twitter and with all these popular third party Twitter clients with it, Twitter must have taken this a big threat.

Hence Twitter was ready to pay nearly $20 Million extra.

Why is twitter better than Facebook to promote your Blog/Company ?

Twitter is better than Facebook to promote your blog/company.

Well I'm not really a social media expert or even anything close to that but still I'm writing this post may be because I've been following Jeff Buallas a bit too much lately.

Twitter as we know is a microblogging site whereas Facebook is a full fledged social networking site where you can chat,play games,upload pics and make albums and a host of other things that you cant imagine to do on Twitter. Imagine playing farmville or poker on twitter, funny eeh.

In spite of all these things that you cannot do on twitter, I still say that twitter is better, you must be thinking I'm nuts.

Normal routine of a normal guy who regularly uses facebook would be to log-in and then check for new notifications, check out his wall and feeds from a few friends and then sit down to chat using the sloppy chat feature that facebook provides. Facebook would tell you that this certain user spent a total 1 hour on Facebook, but still thats of no use to you as he still has not checked out your company/blog page on Facebook. This is precisely why I say twitter is better than facebook.

Now coming to Twitter, lets see the daily routine of a tweeple. He logs in and checks his time line. He reads your tweets and even clicks the links in them. People on twitter have nothing to do except for reading tweets and this is where twitter scores against Facebook.

The bonus is actually on the person who writes those tweets to make them more and more eye-catching. Writing tweets that tend to catch the viewers attention is an art in itself.

Re-tweets are one of the best way to get followers on Twitter. The more your twitter handle is mentioned in other people's tweets, more are the chances of you getting new followers.

One more thing that makes twitter better is that recently Facebook has come under heavy attack from spammers. There are new ways to spam everyday, fake apps to fake events, Facebook is fast becoming vulnerable to these spammers. Twitter has fared better in this respect as it is still more or less spam free.

So rather than spending time on managing your company/blog page on Facebook, you should concentrate on your twitter handle.

Happy Tweeting :)

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I will soon add twitter functionality to tech-keeda, but in the mean while you can follow me @twitter, my twitter handle, @vipulbhojwani