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Hey friends who is better social networking site Facebook or Twitter !!

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Short answer: there is no single “better” network — pick the platform that matches the objective, audience, and content you have. A few readers here voiced the two classic points: ’s personal preference, ’s traffic wins from Twitter/X, and ’s practical advice to use both. Use those instincts, but add measurement and a plan.

Scale and audience matter. Meta’s family of apps still delivers massive reach (Meta reported family daily active people ~3.43 billion in Q1 2025), which makes Facebook/Instagram especially powerful for broad awareness, precise retargeting and conversion funnels. Pew Research shows platform use varies a lot by age and purpose — Facebook reaches a large share of U.S. adults while X/Twitter is used by a smaller, different audience — so let your buyer persona decide where to invest. (marketwirenews.com)

Tactics: use X for real-time PR, customer service, linkable updates and journalist/influencer outreach; use Meta for community building (Pages/Groups), creative ads and pixel-based retargeting. Be cautious about expecting organic referral volume to behave the way it did a decade ago — Chartbeat/Similarweb analyses show referral traffic from Facebook and X to publishers has declined sharply — so always instrument campaigns with UTM tags, landing-page goals and a test budget. Also note X user counts and reported metrics have been volatile and vary by source, so treat audience-size claims as estimates. (mediapost.com)

Quick checklist to apply now: 1) state one KPI (awareness, traffic, leads, support), 2) pick the platform that best matches that KPI and audience, 3) run a 4-8 week experiment (content + small ad spend), 4) measure with analytics and iterate. For scheduling and cadence, follow platform-specific best-practice windows (Sprout Social’s recent analysis is a useful starting point) and adapt based on your account data. (sproutsocial.com)

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Member Avatar for Ancient Dragon

Purely subjective. I like Facebook better, but others may not.

Member Avatar for emily.sasha.39

Now a days Twitter is my most favourite because it helps me alot to grab traffic towards my site

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Member Avatar for arthisoftseo

Today Facebook is the most important social bookmarking site. From facebook we share our information easily and furthoremore we are capable to discuss with our friends.

Member Avatar for Smith Jones

Hi everybody,

Social networking sites like facebook, twitter, Linkedln, Google plus etc. These are useful for Seo. It helps to increase the traffic of the site.

Thanks a lot
Smith Jones

commented: Did you even read the OP? -3
Member Avatar for movielinks

Line between social media marketing and search engine optimization is blurring day by day. Social Networks like facebook, linkedin, twitter, pinterest surely help you to gain high SERP

Member Avatar for anumandava

Number of social networks presented on the web like wallpost.com. According to my opinion this is the best, i never seen the feature ehich are presented in wallpost. simply fantastic. so, i like this.

Member Avatar for clarie.texas

Twitter is good for SEO too as well as for social media... But facebook is a better platform for social networking and for social media too.

Member Avatar for Icone

No doubt, it's Facebook.

Member Avatar for ProSence

Of course, social networking sites are really too helpful for building links and promoting sites.

Member Avatar for hairextension

hello
everbody
the best social site is facebook
second one is gmail
then goole
twiter

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Member Avatar for happygeek

Since when was Gmail a social networking site? If you are going to post very thinly disguised signature spam then at least make an effort to be accurate with your responses... Oh, and 'goole' or 'twiter' what might they be? Yes, I know...

Member Avatar for kansak

Facebook , Twitter and Linkdein are the way they are placed in popularity and the way I see them as being Social Media Platforms in terms of relavance towards Social networking sites.

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Member Avatar for erica.lrk

Facebook is good.

Member Avatar for hira08

facebook wat else..;)

Member Avatar for liamreed89

No dabout that facebook is better social networking website.

Member Avatar for ivonne-darlene

Facebook allows you to share much more diverse content - videos, photos, large pieces of text...Audience gets tired of the same type of posts really quickly...But on the other hand you may lose that part of your target audience which is present in Twitter but misses on Facebook. I would recommend you to use both. Now it's possible to share automatically those posts you tweet on Twitter on Facebook too. So it appears not a matter of time anymore.

Member Avatar for seobellawright 
Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin are best for SMO..
Member Avatar for victoria.tran.589

In my country, facebook is number one.

Member Avatar for redayager

No dabout Facebook is better.

Member Avatar for AarenAce

I think other than face book and twitter there are Linkedln, Google plus are good social websites.

Member Avatar for Dennis Ikpi

Dot forget to impact a life positively today. A lil help offered to a poor girl/boy in the street could save your life tomorrow. Lets stand up as a work a nation to make our mother land a better place. We all are leaders, the leadership of our land should not only be placed on men and women who are not ready to see the tears of masses. Stand up and be good to one another Nigerians

Member Avatar for AarenAce

Facebook is number one in my country.

Member Avatar for deonrock

This is interesting.....

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Member Avatar for maria.methews

i guess Google + is good but Facebook is not much bad as we think.

Member Avatar for SJaved7

If you are going to choose one among all the social media sites, I will go for Google plus. Google plus have lot of attributes to promote online business, like they are giving you the opportunity to promote your business locally as well as Globally.

Member Avatar for masseynieves

Facebook is best social networking site.

Member Avatar for jobtardis

Compare to twitter facebook have lot of good features.

Member Avatar for Deep Modi

Facebook.
All are at the same position but Many of them get through FB

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