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For Businesses looking to capitalize on Social Media both Facebook and Twitter sit at the forefront of possibly a new paradigm shift. Though different in nature, they both are opening their doors for businesses to spend money and this makes them competitors in certain ways.
Tech Crunch recently posted a Facebook fan page study by Sysomos that revealed 77 percent of fan pages have fewer than 1,000 fans. Within this study ‘Facebook fan pages tend to be updated only once every 16 days.’
TechCrunch went on to say, “On Twitter, you follow someone because you want to hear what they have to say. On Facebook, you fan them just to show your support or affinity. Too often, it’s a throwaway gesture.”
I would agree with this as it is a sort of present day ‘snap shot’ for the state of FB (Fan pages) as compared to Twitter. However, I have seen fan pages become a thriving realm for interaction. Though most are still just, ‘oh, yeah..sure, i’ll become a fan’, with little interactiion after that, things are a changin’. (Oh wait, to ensure that I am up to speed, they are no longer ‘Fans’ according to FB…they are now people that ‘like’ your Fan page.) Read more…
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