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Making Money Quick - Facebook Or Twitter - Social Networking War is on

Facebook started first and is much larger.
Twitter started later but is growing faster.
Facebook allows lengthy communications.
Twitter is restricted to 140 characters.
Facebook allows articles and photo albums and videos and surveys.
Twitter allows a photo attachment.
On the surface, it would seem that Facebook is bigger and better.
But, the truth is only that it is bigger.
The very reason that it appears better is paradoxically why it is worse.
Let me explain.
Allowing long communications and photo albums and videos and survey and lots of other options is one of Facebook's difficulties.
Firstly, there is the learning curve as to how to handle and organize all these options.
Secondly, there is just way too much clutter in the world today and simplicity is Twitter's huge ace.
Twitter is growing faster than any website ever because of its disarming simplicity.
Who would have ever known that brief 140-character snippets would be of such interest and would be such a refreshing change from lengthy communications offered by Facebook or email.
But the final clue as to which would win came with Facebook's Fan Pages and Twitter's brand new Lists.
Facebook makes Fan Pages very hard to find and is not strongly encouraging its use.
Actually Facebook perceives that it should only be used by big players like movie stars, famous singers, etc.
Twitter is soon to unleash its Lists and is making it really easy to open Lists and invite people to join them and to find other Lists of interest, etc.
Twitter will win the Social Networking War over Facebook and the newest proof is how they each handled their latest offering: Fan Pages and Lists.
I'm betting on Twitter.

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