10 Reasons Why Google+ is Better Than Twitter
- Status text can be any length from 0 to 100,000 characters, enabling much richer interaction and detailed explanation.
- URL sampling provides rich snippets inline enabling rapid decisions over attention worth.
- Video and images displayed inline rather than as links.
- Hangouts (or direct video posting) with text chat/Google Docs/YouTube integration - a full blown conferencing tool much more stable than Skype.
- Circles and individual-targeted posts allow fine grained control of privacy.
- Circles and individual-targeted posts allow fine grained control of publishing.
- Google+ is a refinement of what has gone before, optimizing attention stream architecture.
- Google+ pages are a useful way to separate online identities, e.g. professional from personal interests.
- Hashtag searches highly filterable to eliminate noise, e.g. Public, from your Circles only, etc.
- Google has bet the farm on Google+. It isn't going anywhere.
- But my friends/family/colleagues don't use Google+ yet. They will do.
5 comments:
The place where Twitter has done well in the past is the 140 character limit works well with SMS. At the time that was a selling point. With smartphones becoming more widespread more and more people using a phone won't be accessing Twitter through SMS. That 140 character limit is going to look arbitrary.
I think the recent changes at Twitter like automatic URL shortening and picture uploads are quick fixes for a fundamental problem. Things like threading of comments will matter (I don't think you mentioned that try following a busy and forking @stream on Twitter).
The recent £300m investment from Saudi Arabia has already produced change at Twitter, so maybe more will come in the next few months to tackle Facebook and G+? It'd be tough. Twitter users aren't as grumpy as Facebook users about change, but they don't always welcome it.
I agree about the significance of Twitter on mobile devices. However, I think the mobile clients is an area where Google+ has done well, and as devices get smarter the utility will increase.
And we have to remember that Google+ is still only 6 months old!
It's point 10 plus my own inertia re switching which is the problem for me. Also, I like 140 limit
My problem is with multiple Google IDs since my University went over to G-Apps for Education. I have a long-standing personal Google account, the mail bit of which I use for more or less personal email, but the G+ bit I used largely for professional communication. Having built up this environment, now work offers G+ in the G Apps for Education Environment. I have set up another account but that in effect killed my use of G+ all together. What I want (are you listening Google?) is to have one G+ identity (on my personal account) but to be able to link it to my professional environment for hangouts and discussions around documents. However, multiple sign-in doesn't work very smoothly.
I know what Stuart means, I think that the nature of sharing on G+ is different. The lack of character limit does mean I feel I should make a 'post' rather than 'share a status'. So, here is something I've read and what I think about it, rather than 'it's cold innnit?'.
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