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Re:Ask HN: Why do celebrities favor Twitter over Facebook? on Thursday February 26, 2015 @04:37PM (#9115678)

This is NOT true. Try log out Facebook, and you will still still be able to read public profiles of celebrities.

Re:Ask HN: Why do celebrities favor Twitter over Facebook? on Thursday February 26, 2015 @04:35PM (#9115669)

So it makes more sense for celebrities to directly broadcast to a larger audience on FB than Twitter...

Re:Ask HN: Why do celebrities favor Twitter over Facebook? on Thursday February 26, 2015 @04:34PM (#9115664)

This really makes sense. Basically, Twitter is for journalists and celebrities, while Facebook is for commoners. No wonder why Twitter's user growth is pretty limited. The question becomes why it is hard for Facebook to adapt this hashtag and trending model? FB does have public profiles for celebrities.

Re:Ask HN: Why do celebrities favor Twitter over Facebook? on Thursday February 26, 2015 @01:46PM (#9114356)

For a commoner like me, FB only notify 10% of my friends. Is that the same thing for celebrities? It doesn't seem so.

I just take a sample using Justin Bieber's post that are both shared on FB and Twitter. On FB it has 385k likes, and Twitter only has 63k likes to the same content. The ratio is similar to MAU of the two platforms. FB is able to get more audience for him.

Re:Ask HN: Why do celebrities favor Twitter over Facebook? on Thursday February 26, 2015 @01:35PM (#9114240)

140 actually makes average users hard to understand what does it mean without context information. This is also the reason that Twitter user number stops growing, even slower than the gigantic Facebook.

Re:Ask HN: Why do celebrities favor Twitter over Facebook? on Thursday February 26, 2015 @01:32PM (#9114215)

Let's say you are a celebrity on the go, posting something on Facebook has a potential of reaching extra 1 Billion users. Of coz, there are more nosies with an extra billion users. However, you are still reaching more audiance than Twitter ...

Ask HN: Why do celebrities favor Twitter over Facebook?

Posted by biglizheng on Thursday February 26, 2015 @01:19PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Twitter has less than 300 million MAU, while Facebook has 1.3 billion MAU. Twitter US MAU is also much smaller than Facebook MAU.Intuitively, celebrities want to use Facebook to promote themselves.However, most celebrities are more active in Twitter. This is also true for tech leaders. For instance, most YC partners are pretty active on Twitter but not so on Facebook.Why do they only target a...

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