I'm not into either of these,but is the newbie on the block Twitter perhaps one day overtake Facebook as the prefered option

Facebook, I signed up for twitter a few days ago but it's not the same, I don't like it much  

I had Facebook  ...got bored with it. Don't think Twitter would hold my interest. I'm mostly hooked on YouTube  

I am on facebook and think twitter is just plain boring.

Wow, I've never used Twitter. What's the difference anyway.    

Flash in the pan??  

Twitter users have short attention span, figures show

From correspondents in Washington
Reuters http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,25403295-5014239,00.html
April 29, 2009 10:11am

MORE than 60 per cent of Twitter users have stopped using the micro-blogging service a month after joining, according to Nielsen Online research.

"Twitter has enjoyed a nice ride over the last few months, but it will not be able to sustain its meteoric rise without establishing a higher level of user loyalty," said David Martin, Nielsen Online's vice president for primary research.

Mr Martin said that more than 60 per cent of Twitter users fail to return the following month.

"Or in other words, Twitter's audience retention rate, or the percentage of a given month's users who come back the following month, is currently about 40 per cent," he said.

"Let there be no doubt: Twitter has grown exponentially in the past few months with no small thanks to celebrity exposure," he said, in reference to new users such as US talk show host Oprah Winfrey and promoters such as actor Ashton Kutcher.

"People are signing up in droves, and Twitter's unique audience is up over 100 per cent in March," Mr Martin said.

"But despite the hockey-stick growth chart, Twitter faces an uphill battle in making sure these flocks of new users are enticed to return to the nest," he said.

"A retention rate of 40 per cent will limit a site's growth to about a 10 per cent reach figure," he said, in reference to the number of potential users.

Mr Martin said that when Facebook and MySpace were emerging networks like Twitter their retention rates were twice as high and they now have retention rates of nearly 70 per cent.

Mr Martin did say that Twitter's current 40 per cent retention rate was better than the 30 per cent it enjoyed pre-Oprah.

Read Write Web reported last week that local traffic to the site had remained steady after a recent increase.

"In Australia, according to Hitwise, the single largest spike in visits came one day after the Queensland Election in March, and interestingly, Hitwise did not record a drop in numbers since then," it said.

First time i have seen this post in a long while,and have things changed since then.Twitter is huge and Facebook has been left behind,and no i still don't use either

They serve differant functions for me.  Facebook is what it is and has been.  I don't tweet but I follow two services and one person on twitter.  

I never see more than a couple of tweets a day and usually its just one.  Its more of an informational thing for me than a social thing so in my case I'm put off by people who tweet a lot and have stopped following services when the person behind the account didn't shut up.

I signed up with Twitter when it started but soon got bored with it.
I look at Facebook most days to see what family and friends are doing, it really does keep you in touch with distant rellies and such.
I have just renewed contact with a guy I knew in my teens that now lives in America, thanks to Facebook......

I did that with someone who was my pre-pubescent girlfriend from the 6th grade, and then a mutual acquaintance from overlapping crowds in high school.  It was interesting, then I put her on my MSN and things got really weird and she was taking sexual jokes seriously enough that she was telling me "hold on, my boyfriend is in the room" and I'd be like "okay I have to go now". Her boyfriend was a closer mutual acquaintance from High School that I used to hang out with occasionally, so it was really weird.  They had been living together for 7 years and shortly after I contacted her they broke up... not because of me of course.

Aside from learning that she'd embraced an overall lifestyle that rubbed me the wrong way, there were some pretty interesting things, for example we both moved to various parts of what is a comparitiveley large country considering all the cities you can end up in.  My parents moved, I moved, she moved, the boyfriend she lived with moved, her parents moved... all very long distances, and yet she and her boyfriend (From LA) ended up in a part of Louisiana where they were close by the port for an offshore job I had, vacationed at a beach on the Alabama/Florida border where I worked and we were both familiar with some of the same towns.  Her parents moved about an hour from where my parents ended up, in the middle of the country, and she used to ride dirt bikes through the undeveloped parts of their suburb, which was just out of the way of a bigger city.  She was still friends with another one of my pre-pubescent arm accessory girlfriends.  There were other coincidences but I can't remember them now.  She'd stayed in touch with a lot of guys that were my friends in high school, but that I had not so it was interesting to learn about them... and to be reminded that she had punched our 5th grade teacher in the stomach and ran out of class one day.  I'd forgotten all about it... she was the hero of the week when that happened.

More coincidentally, the town I moved to from LA when I was 17.. I didn't want to go but 16 isn't legal age in the US, and LA would have eaten me up and spit me out on my own.  Here in Australia I had to make an appointment when my iPhone battery wasn't holding a charge after a month of use.  Its called the "Genius bar" when you go talk to someone about your machine's symptoms.  They used to have a commercial with the "genius".  The guy I got was an American with my same accent, can't remember where he was raised now, but still managed to go to high school in the next big town in Alabama to the big one in Florida I ended up living in.  He not only knew where the tiny town my parents moved to, which still isn't on the map, but he knew all the same stuff I did in between these 2 places.  Its likely that we know some of the same people.

I could go on even further if the topic of the thread read "Coincidences", but I'm happy to stop typing now anyway.

Anyway... that was my experience with a similar experience.  It wasn't a good one.  Most people that I knew in high school I'm not really too bothered to find out about today, however its likely that a lot of them are in jail or even dead.
Of the people I would like to reconnect with, I'd rather not do it on facebook now, unless fate brings me there.  I'd rather it be in person, and it would be weird, for example I had a friend that I met when I was 2 and that I used to carpool to preschool with, who lived in the house right behind me.  I moved when I was 5 but we stayed best friends until we were 14 or 15 and we sort of drifted into different crowds, and despite going to different schools, the bottom line was that I was a non conformist, pot smoking guy that dressed (and still does to a degree) like it was still the later 70s, and he was just a typical kid by that point.