Comments on: Real Men of Genius: Social Media edition

By: Lorna

Lorna — Thu, 05 May 2011 18:07:53 +0000

I enjoyed this post, even though I do actually link my two accounts. As someone who’s facebook and twitter friends/followers are the same, I don’t actually care when I get double posts, it doesn’t affect me in the slightest… Still everyone is different, you probably don’t get annoyed at the same things as I do about people. Thanks for posting, as it was very humorous!

By: Stacey

Stacey — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:54:50 +0000

This. Is. Brilliant. (Even though I’m totally guilty of linking!)

By: Ryan Meray

Ryan Meray — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:26:39 +0000

I know at least for me, my friends and family would kill me if I sync’d twitter to Facebook, I tweet 10-20 times a day and I think once you pass 5 daily facebook updates it just becomes noise. I know when I started, I sync’d the two initially and found out several of my close friends and family had hidden me from their Facebook feeds because of it, and I don’t blame them.
Twitter and Facebook ask the same question, but I don’t necessarily think the same volume of updates works for both services.
I’ll blast out the occassional duplicate to Facebook, but I use Tweetdeck’s Facebook update ability to chose which updates go to both and which go to Twitter or Facebook only.

By: primesuspect

primesuspect — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:57:44 +0000

Facebook and Twitter are different groups of people. Yes, there are duplicates, but they are different networks

I find a lot of value in syncing the accounts; I get a lot of facebook feedback on my tweets, and if I didn’t, I’d probably never use facebook at all.

I understand the annoyance with duplicates for facebook friends that are also on twitter, but for those who aren’t, anything I’d tweet is something I’d put on facebook anyway.

I’m not a person who has a “social media agenda” – I tend to use the SM networks for their purest purpose. Twitter and Facebook ask the same question: What are you doing? What’s on your mind?
There is only one answer to that question at any given moment; what should I do? Type it twice? If I want to tell people about myself, what I am doing, what my event is, a funny thing my kid said, or a picture I took, why should I have to pick and choose social networks?
I find it helpful. To each his own.