Facebook vs Twitter

I have approximately 300 friends on facebook and 248 followers on twitter. 86% of my posts (tweets) on twitter on my wall (or whatever it's called on twitter) attract neither likes, comments nor shares. This figure is only 50% for facebook. So I've concluded I'm wasting my time putting my thoughts on twitter, so I'm jacking it in. Also, I find the 280 character limit on there infuriating.

Anyway, even the 50% of my posts completely ignored on facebook seems to be pretty bad compared to the number of likes and comments other people get (and it's always the same ~10 people out of my 300 friends that ever react or comment). A lot of my comments on there I duplicate in this blog. Probably my comments are too long for peoples attention span? Even this post here that I also put on facebook only attracted just the one like and zero comments. Got to confess I was quite surprised!

On this note I found this article interesting. It says:

Someone introduces a controversial subject and people begin to choose the anger reaction button, which is worth five points each time it is used. The [meaningful social interactions metric] is rising and more users see this in their News Feed.

I think you have to either say stuff like "jus' been drinking", or post something controversial without any attempt at balance in order to attract comments and reactions. But I don't like to do that, I like to adopt a measured approach.  But that will be bad for getting my posts promoted up peoples newsfeeds!

Irrelevant Responses

When people ask a question on facebook or twitter or wherever, there's often just a endless series of responses with people making puerile jokes, posting irrelevant gifs etc. I've scrolled through 100's of responses sometimes without seeing a single sensible response. Frequently my response is the only one that is sensible, but of course it's lost amongst the hundreds of asinine responses, so very few people will see it. Are these responses not all just a complete waste of time and space?

Twitter is a waste of my time

I created a Twitter account a fair few years ago, but it's only in the past 5 weeks or so I've started to use it. 

I hate the 280 character limit, and I think scarcely anyone reads my tweets. I feel like I'm just talking to myself, no one ever comments on my tweets. And they are rarely liked. I'm unable to find anyone who has less followers than I have (66).

You do get people like Richard Dawkins and other notable people tweeting on there, unlike facebook.  You can respond to them, but they almost always ignore you.

Much prefer facebook.