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As someone who doesn't have Facebook yet has Twitter, I am constantly teased by my friends as to the reason why. I tell them having never really had Facebook, I don’t understand the need for it- You can’t miss what you've never had. Twitter on the other hand seems more useful to me, I can follow who I want and connect with/hear from those I need to. My friends are ‘Facebook friends’ with a whole bunch of people they don’t ever talk to and when I ask what the point is- they just shrug nonchalantly and reply that’s just how it is. 

Although Facebook and Twitter share many of the same useful characteristics like connecting instantly without the need for physical closeness, it seems to me that twitter has the upper hand –it’s more of a communication service than a true social network because it focuses on creating a stream of information that resembles a conversation, rather than just grouping friends together. There’s no better way to find out fast, what if anything is happening in the world, from anywhere in the world. Or communicate with those you need to regardless of location. When I went to Dubai last year I struck up a close friendship with this photographer from Canada and occasionally tweet each other today to see what we’re up to and arrange meetings. 

Some social medias come and go, think MySpace, Hi-5 and Bebo, but I don’t think Twitter’s time will ever pass, it doesn't need to constantly evolve like its competitors in terms of aesthetics, that’s because the content that fuels twitter constantly changes.

Source:
. https://twitter.com/