Facebook vs Twitter, which is better ?
 

Hello friends,

I sure that that is an interesting question and I think that more people will choose facbook is the best for you but for me, I will choose Twitter because Twitter brings me more customers and traffic than Facebook.

What about you ? Facebook vs Twitter, which is better ?

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Facebook all day every day.

I wouldnt even spend much of any of your time on Twitter IMHO

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Hi,
In my opinion Facebook is much better then Twitter.
The reason is that Facebook is popular among every age group, so you get huge audience for your product or website.

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Facebook without question.

I still don't get why "average" people use Twitter.

It only makes sense to me if you're a celebrity or a marketer like us trying to sell to these "average" people.

By average I just mean average everyday people.

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Yeah and how many visitors are your articles getting from those 500 followers? I'll guess it's a number between 0 and 10.

Yes, its a little more difficult to get things going on Facebook but who cares?

When you're getting thousands of visitors a day and making thousands per month, you won't even be thinking about how difficult it may have been in the beginning.

You just need to accept the fact that in order to succeed, you have to learn new skills.

Facebook marketing should definitely be one of them.

Twitter traffic is garbage. Unless you have hundreds of thousands of real followers

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Facebook is good now a days.

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Facebook is best for driving traffic but some times your adsense get banned due to large volume of traffic from social media

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I doubt it's coming from those 500 followers. It could be a combination of things from twitter.

But I could be wrong.

I'm just going by my own stats.

And out of 227,000 visits in the last 30 days, Twitter accounted for a whopping 231 from 971 followers and hundreds of retweets of my posts.

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I would say Facebook hands down completely! FB is very user friendly and there are many ways that you can use it to increase your email subscribers list. You can use FB groups, Fanpages or use their CPC or CPM Models. Are you doing list building with twitter?

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Organic or paid? I think both platforms are now increasingly accurate with targeting on the paid side. On the organic side it has to be Twitter that is my preference purely because you can respond to someone's tweet and jump straight into conversation even if they don't follow you.

For e.g. you sell SEO services and search twitter for latest genuine seo queries. It's a great way to build relationships. This just isn't possible on Facebook due to privacy settings.

On the paid side however, the reach you can get from Facebook is incredible.

One more thing, Twitter is excellent for PR. All the journalists are on it and very active. Just search for the hashtag #journorequest and see for yourself!

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It's Facebook. Twitter needs double energy because of too many Fake accounts LOL.

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Certainly Face Book is better than Twitter.

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I would say Facebook is #1, it has a few more advantages: For example videos. They're becoming more and more important because they can easily entertain and mostly doesn't require any efforts like understanding written words or something. Like I you can see here about facts about online video, Facebook is now number two after YouTube in terms of unique video viewers. That shows the importance of videos - and twitter tries to keep up with Vine.

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Facebook has over 1.2 billion active users, potential clients

Twitter has only about 0.2 billion active users, from which a majority are unfortunately spammers.

I read somwhere that, overall, 99.8 % of tweets are never read by anyone

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I don't think that Facebook and Twitter can be compared in any way. They're not even close neither by popularity, members or features. I believe Twitter has its own advantages, but I prefer Facebook.

@quizfactz - every second thread in this part of the forum is about popularizing Facebook pages, getting more likes, fans, followers etc. but basically it is up to you to see what will work for you the best ;)

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Not doubt..Facebook is best now-a-days, I am busy with my Facebook pages with lots of traffic, not even a single moment on Twitter.

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Hello,
I think both are most helpful for getting traffic.
In Facebook, we can promote our business more elaborately. Just like, we can use viewable image/videos in Facebook which helps to get better impact.

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Facebook is best due to multiple pages in one account while twitter is best due to its hash tags.

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I prefer Facebook to be the best. Not everyone and in every country Twiiter is popular. But Facebook is popular in every way. Don't spend time on Twitter rather focus on Facebook Fan page, and try to make it awesome one..

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Apparently, quite a lot of us :D

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Form me Facebook it can drive more traffic and your can earn some money as well because of that traffic especially in CPA.

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It is time to check in on the battle between Facebook and Twitter for dominance of the social media LOL. I like Facebook and Twitter both, with a slight edge to Twitter for it value as a news source and as a vehicle for B2B and B2C. Facebook does so well with the former. But instead of these two, my choice is Google+ which combines the best of both worlds and comes with built in SEO.
Thanks ! :)

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The best is to combine them, especially now because of facebooks EdgeRank algorithm.

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I agree with this opinion, we need combine Facebook, Twitter and other social networks to get best results.

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Similar experience here.

I'm using Twitter only to stay in touch with already hooked up visitors. Seems they like it, and I don't mind spending a few minutes a day on them to keep them reminded of me. I don't even have any hopes of getting some serious traffic via that platform.

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this different to me, I got more views from Twitter, even sales via Twitter for my forum. Thus, for me, I always vote Twitter is my number 1 social networks.

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It really depends on what you are trying to promote. Visual things tend to do better on Facebook.

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All my traffic for my affiliate marketing firm comes from re-tweets of twitter, facebook doesn't count for more than 18% of my traffic. I find twitter is better for marketing, but if you want leads then facebook is the way to go. Just from my personal experience anyway.

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faceboook takes some time and relationship building skills but does work just be patient with it....Twitter at one point was very good but now seems a waste of my time

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In my opinion Twitter is better than facebook, Because Twitter is a very large social channel, I know facebook as well and good network but in my personally Opinion because twitter gives me more effect result gives more traffic for my business My choice is {Twitter} {Twitter} [Twitter}

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Agree to this opinion, If for me can choose between 50K followers and 50K fans on Facebook, I will choose Twitter because at this time I getting more benefits with it.

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I get more traffic from facebook but I like using Twitter as well. Facebook doesn't want you to meet new people so I find it hard to get new followers without spending. Twitter I can send out 200 targeted emails a day for free so that is pretty cool. I get a few new fans a month on FB but can get as many new followers on twitter as I want.

I think my twitter account is hacked though :(

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For business and advertising, I think Twitter is more effective. More business owners are active on Twitter.

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There's no reason to choose. Both networks have huge audiences and, regardless of your business, it's very likely segments of your market use both networks. Learn the proper etiquette of each network and combine their strengths. If you're doing any type of content marketing (and you should be), you would be stupid not to use both networks.

Aside from that, there's a lot of really bad advice from some people in this thread. If you're impression of Twitter is still that it's only for celebrities or people wanting to broadcast every minute event in their life like brushing their teeth, you really shouldn't be giving advice about social media marketing. That was decent advice 2007; it's terrible advice now.

There is an incredible amount of substantive discussion on Twitter. There are tons of business opportunities on Twitter. It is, by far, a much better method of spreading your content quickly. It is quite a lot easier to grow an audience, because Twitter is extremely open compared to Facebook.

Twitter is absolutely not just for celebrities any more and it's not a feed of mindless updates anymore, assuming it ever was.

Perhaps for you. For me, it is one of the highest drivers of traffic and they stay on the site just as long as visitors from Facebook.

I have 1,300 followers -- such is the beauty of Twitter. You don't need hundreds of thousands of followers to make an impact anymore than you need hundreds of thousands of fans on Facebook to make an impact. The ability to share via retweet increases reach of updates very easily and quickly.

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I think facebook is better than twitter.Facebook appeals to people looking to reconnect with old friends and family members or find new friends online; the mashup of features like email, instant messaging, image and video sharing, etc. feels familiar, while Twitter is a bit harder to get your arms around at first.

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Facebook is better with different functionality like groups, pages, places, etc

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I would say facebook by the look's of it most of us here are of the same opinion.

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It depends on what you're selling, and where your audience hangs out.

For us, for instance, we sell customer referral programs to businesses and marketers. Most of these people are easier to reach on Twitter than on Facebook. So Twitter gives us a much better ROI.

Facebook is better for reaching "regular" consumers- if you're selling dresses or shoes, for instance, or Oreos.

Know thyself, know thy product, and know ye audience!

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It all depends on your target audience but generally I prefer facebook since its more social/personal than the other!

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I prefer FB... I use/ have both but the average person on fb may have between 100-200 friends and may like a few pages but if you are on twitter most people are following hundreds - thousands of people so your news feed is forever ticking over, and who scrolls their twitter news feed.. not me so its harder for people to see what your saying, promoting etc where as on FB your fan base are more likely to see what you have to say.. Plus you cant really having a meaning conversation on twitter..

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In my opinion,whatever facebook or twitter,they have each own advantage.i both like them very much,but it so regretful for me that i can use them freely.if we want to login them,we need to via the vpn tool.

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My personal opinion is Facebook, I simply had more success with it. You have many different ways to use it - posts, pages, groups, ads etc. I've also noticed that on Twitter more people are trying to just get their message out and ignoring everyone else, while on Facebook people are actually reading the posts. That's just my experience...

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It's not about selling on social, it's about bringing together a group of people (Facebook) that have similar interests or interacting with people on twitter based on similar interests and conversations.

Which is better? I agree with ReferralCandy- it depends on what your niche is.
There's no right answer.

Is pinterest better than both of those? Maybe for interior design, baby stuff or fashion but certainly not for everything.

Know your audience and where they hang out.

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I prefer both Facebook and Twitter as it depends on the post and tweets you tweet on facebook and twitter respectively, How useful it is for visitors or users, If they find some interesting post then only they will wish to visit your website or others posts.

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As an Internet Marketer I'd say using both Facebook and Twitter is crucial to grow your business. It's not a matter of which one is better but instead of how many sources of traffic you use...

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If the question is which one is better for marketing then I will definitely say Facebook is better. Facebook has a large audience and it offers more oppurtunities to do marketing. We just have to take the right marketing way via Facebook according to our niche. Because every niche can have different demand of engagement.

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Both have their purpose and if you have a website, you must use Twitter as well as Facebook. However, I must say I earned a good amount of money with CPA offers on Facebook without website and direct links. I would not have been as successful with Twitter.

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I used to make lots of sales via twitter but got my account with 60,000 followers suspended because they decided they didn't like tweetadder, or any automation software.. So twitter works well and less competition as they are all advertising on Facebook .. But unfortunately twitter is trigger happy at deleting accounts which makes it probably better or a bit safer to use Facebook ... :-)

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Don't you hate that. The Big G loves to ban folks for almost any reason now days.

/rant off

Believe it or not I've not lost an adsense account or had a site delisted, but have a lot of friends who have. Just used to LOVE Google and they've changed so much over the years.

Back on topic. I have a decent sized twitter following but it seems most folks on twitter are not that engaged with it. On FB, people are online there a LOT. There's a high percentage of people in all age groups who are certifiably addicted to FB. To me, that makes a much more fruitful advertising base.

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I guess the reason that you get more customers and traffic through twitter than Facebook is that you may more time on twitter, am I right?

Twitter is the most effective way to post your information, because you just need to type several lines and then you can finish posting your information. However, I like Facebook more than twitter because facebook allows us post information in details and facebook give us more options to communicate with our friends.