{"id":3161,"date":"2011-10-05T11:38:02","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T15:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=3161"},"modified":"2011-10-05T11:38:02","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T15:38:02","slug":"why-facebook-works-for-all-twitter-for-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/10\/05\/why-facebook-works-for-all-twitter-for-some\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 &#8220;Why Facebook Works for All, Twitter for Some&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/27\/why-facebook-works-for-all-twitter-for-some\/\">NYTimes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Facebook, if someone wants to tag another person \u2014 say their brother at dinner \u2014 they just start writing the name and Facebook figures out the rest using an algorithm that understands names. In comparison, on Twitter, people have to understand\u00a0@ symbols, hashtags and other strange intricacies of the service. These features make Twitter a great tool for many, but not for all.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing my sister navigate Twitter, I realized why it was so confusing to so many. For someone like me with a programming background who grew up using computers, adding an @ symbol to someone\u2019s name is easy. For someone who did not, like 90 percent of America, it just doesn\u2019t make sense. Our brain is not forced to do this in real life, why should it in digital life?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A) I don&#8217;t see this as an issue. Twitter is based on hashtags and @ symbols and relies heavily on syntax as was the goal of Jack Dorsey when he made it.<\/p>\n<p>B) Facebook doesn&#8217;t work that way but it&#8217;s not a broadcast system.<\/p>\n<p>C) Twitter is taking control of the App experience by slowly locking out 3rd party applications and making their apps the easiest to use. That will help them make Twitter easier faster and this may not be an argument in a year or two<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NYTimes: On Facebook, if someone wants to tag another person \u2014 say their brother at dinner \u2014 they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-OZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3307,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/12\/01\/path-is-what-twitter-should-have-been\/","url_meta":{"origin":3161,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 Path is what Twitter should have been","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"December 1, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't know who made the call at Twitter HQ (aka the Twoffice) that Twitter was only about the free-flow of information where an SMS message can span the globe within seconds and that would be all the service would become. 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