Thursday, September 9, 2010

Who Stand Out: Buzz, Twitter, Facebook or Friendfeed


Written by Ann Liu

Since Buzz launched weeks ago till now, I am still expe­ri­enc­ing it, beside I find Buzz is much more con­ver­sa­tional (more con­ver­sa­tion dri­ven) com­pare with few other social net­works, it can also use as a pri­vate net­work to share con­tent, news, ideas, and gen­er­ally cre­ate unity dur­ing social media cam­paigns. Rather than that, I haven’t see other results yet (maybe because do not have enough peo­ple on the list to test it out).

How­ever, beside learn­ing by doing, I do find some good info and inter­est­ing obser­va­tions from those real GBers com­ments toward why buzz beats twit­ter, face­book and friendfeed.

In the arti­cle that posted on the Search Engine Jour­nal, Brian Carter wrote:

Buzz vs. Friend­feed

Right now, Buzz basi­cally is Friend­feed but with imme­di­ately greater pen­e­tra­tion. Real con­ver­sa­tions with more peo­ple. One inter­est­ing dif­fer­ence though, is that peo­ple seemed to like the 3.0 aggre­ga­tor aspect of Friend­feed but:

* Buzz users hate noise, and
* They unfol­low peo­ple who add Twit­ter and Friend­feed streams to their Buzz streams.

Buzz beats Friend­feed because Buzz is bigger.

Buzz vs. Twitter

Buzz beats Twit­ter because Buzz has:

* Longer, more sub­stan­tial con­ver­sa­tions, with
* More replies and
* More atten­tion from participants.

Buzz vs Facebook

No pokes, Zom­bie kisses, or farm­ing games on Buzz. There’s less down­side for ADD folks (and some research sug­gests that com­puter mul­ti­task­ing makes our brains tem­porar­ily ADD even if we’re not genet­i­cally that way).

Less dis­trac­tion means more focused inter­ac­tion, and more like­li­hood of sub­stan­tial conversation.

Buzz beats Face­book because Buzz pro­tects con­ver­sa­tions from noise and spam. … con­tin­u­ing read the entire arti­cle here.

Sure, each of these social media sites/apps is dif­fer­ent, which attracts dif­fer­ent audi­ences based on their vari­abil­ity of the fea­tures or for­mats etc, hence crossover is unavoidable.

I think it really does not mat­ter which one is more impor­tant than the other or which one you should be using, the things mat­ter the most is how to uti­lize and lever­age each social media network’s power to engage and com­mu­ni­cate with your audi­ences and get your mes­sage out, NOT to just dump­ing any­thing and every­thing to every social media outlet.

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About Ann Liu
Ann Liu is a certified professional Internet marketer, author, infopreneur, e-marketing consultant. She is also a passionate blogger. Signup her newsletter or RSS feed to receive her latest news, tips and articles at MarketingbyAnn.com. You can follow her on Twitter and Facebook too. If you enjoy this above article and want to use it on your own website, you are welcome to use it, ONLY if the Author's Resource Boxes is included. Thank You!


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