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A guide to know where to post your status update.

From Breaking Copy: Status conscious? Check out this social media flowchart.

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I use both Facebook and Twitter. While some people don’t see the need to have multiple social media accounts, I use both of these networks for very different things.

Why do you use one or the other?

Analysis of 2010 demographics

Facebook is bigger and badder
With 500 million users, Facebook has almost 5 times as many users to network with than Twitter. Of course, Facebook first launched in February 2004 whereas Twitter did not start until July 2006. By the time Twitter was hitting the market Facebook was only just becoming popular. Most people had never logged into Facebook. Then Facebook has a surgence not unlike the one Twitter has been started enjoying.

People are just as aware of Facebook as they are of Twitter
This stat surprised me. 88% of people know about Facebook compared to 87% who are aware of Twitter. I would have figured it to be higher for Facebook.

Facebook boasts higher regular visits
41% of users log in every day to Facebook. Only 27% of Twitter users log in every day. Facebook seems to engage users more which entices more people to keep coming back regularly.

Twitter users are more educated
Given it’s model of presenting news, DIYs, articles, and other information in a concise, scannable format it should be no surprise that Twitter users are more educated than Facebook users. 78% of Twitter users are either in or graduated college versus Facebooks 50%. This is despite the fact that Facebook started off as a social network for colleges.

Twitter users have more to say
Twitter users are a whopping 4 and a third times more likely to update their status when they log in. Many Facebook users will log in just to browse or “creep” other people online.

Facebook users are rich!
Well, not a whole lot richer than Twitter users, but there is a slightly higher percentage of people earning $50K or higher on Facebook than Twitter.

Twitter users are mobile
More twitter users are actively using Twitter on their mobile devices. Makes sense since data on Twitter is so concise.

Twitter users are more brand loyal
Considerably more Facebook users (40%) “Like” companies than Twitter users(25) but a follower of a company on Twitter is far more likely to actually buy a product (67% versus 50% for Facebook).

Infographic from TNW: Facebook Vs. Twitter: By the Numbers [infographic]

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Kevin Butler is the Sony VP made popular through the PS3 commercials.

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Twitter.com has thrived on its simplicity but there are so many good third-party apps that do everything that Twitter does and more that I rarely use the website.

I don’t know if this is a game changer for me, but it looks as though the developers at Twitter took the hint that they needed to built a faster, richer website.

Check it out for yourself.

From Twitter: Meet the new Twitter

Follow news on the new Twitter

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I remember in Facebook’s early years, a friend of mine, Ian, told me about it and I signed up. He told me how huge social networking was going to become. I actively disagreed. I didn’t see the value.

Back then, I had 2 friends on Facebook for almost two years. No one was using it. And it wasn’t that interesting. I logged in every day and my news feed never changed. Facebook was like a failed Hi5 (which apparently still exists).

It didn’t have all the capabilities or applications it does today and Mark Zuckerberg barely had any “friends”, but then something happened. It exploded over night and within a very short period of time I found myself with hundreds of friends.

Then people who I knew who couldn’t tell the difference between a browser and CD-ROM were on Facebook, like my mother.

Here we are today. Facebook has become one of the largest, most popular websites on the internet rivaling even Google for daily visitation.

Now their making a movie about the creator’s story.

The Social Network -- Movie Trailer

Of course what would a big-time motion picture be without some parody in the blogosphere?

Twitter Movie Trailer -- Parody of The Social Network

Added:

YouTube Movie Trailer -- Parody of The Social Network

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Yesterday I started to notice some interesting tweets about NHL teams, players, owners, and reporters.

People were using cupcakes to describe them.

And some of there were hilarious.

Here is a compilation of some of my favorite #NHLCupcakes (though I had trouble finding the ones the made me burst into laughter):

• RT @jerroberts: The Rick Dipietro Cupcake will be on the menu for 15 years but its always out of stock. #NHLCupcakes
• RT @dirvine31: The Crosby cupcake cries like a baby every time it loses the taste test versus the Ovechkin cupcake #NHLCupcakes
• RT @LightningShout: The Philadelphia Flyers cupcake: Its full of nuts that have no taste! #NHLCupcakes
• RT @katiepambu: The Pierre McGuire Cupcake: No one wants it in their bakery. EVER. #NHLCupcakes
• RT @blogesalming: The Eklund Cupcake: Convinces you you’re eating a cupcake and turns out to be urinal cake #NHLCupcakes
• RT: @camdavie: The Roberto Luongo Cupcake – Best before May 11th. #NHLCupcakes
• RT @snoggings: The Shea Weber cupcake: goes right through you #NHLCupcakes
• RT @kevinmfay: The Matt Cooke Cupcake – The deliciousness will blind-side you. #NHLCupcakes
• RT @_Justink: You don’t eat the Wendel Clark cupcake, the Wendel Clark cupcake eats you. #NHLCupcakes
• RT @musings_tweets: the Sedin cupcakes – only avalible in two packs #NHLCupcakes

And here are some of my own contributions:

• The @felixpotvin cupcake packs a punch! #NHLCupcakes
  • @felixpotvin’s response: Take that Hextall cupcake!
• @grevory will need to be “blown away” by offers in order to trade his Kaberle cupcake #NHLCupcakes
• @grevory wishes someone would just eat the Kovalchuk cupcake already. None of the other cupcakes will move otherwise #NHLCupcakes
• The Halak cupcake tastes delicious when you’re most hunger but you throw it away before you get any nourishment #NHLCupcakes
• The Phoenix Coyotes cupcake isn’t available in Canada… for now. #NHLCupcakes

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The Twitter Fail Whale is the most endearing error page on the Internet.

This Twitter user turned the Fail Whale into a cake!

As Guy Kawasaki said, “Deliciously over capacity.”

I have a birthday coming up you guys

From GadgetSin: Fail Whale Cake for Twitter Fans

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I am not sure if this is a regular thing, but I logged into Twitter tonight to find a flood a updates from @thescopeNL regarding discussions during the St. John’s City Council Meeting. Real time updates of important issues as they are addressed.

Cool!

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