The new subscribe feature
of Facebook seems to have lot in common with Twitter but with one key
difference - if you follow someone on Twitter, you get to see all their
shares whereas if you subscribe to someone on Facebook, you only see
stuff that they have specifically made 'public.'
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| Facebook Subscribe Recommendation |
Today, Facebook has added a new feature
where they recommend you other public Facebook profiles to subscribe to
and these recommendations are probably based on your existing
subscriptions (see screenshot). Twitter too has a similar recommendation engine which offers suggestions based on who you are currently following.
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| Twitter Who-To-Follow |
Twitter has a valid reason to worry here. They just touched 100
million users while Facebook has a 750+ million user base and people
spend more time on Facebook than any other site on the web. Twitter only
recently added support for multimedia while Facebook does a far better
job at rendering shared content with rich snippets and inline previews.
I created my Twitter account some five years and it has taken me all this time to reach a few thousand followers. I enabled subscriptions for my Facebook profile
a few days ago and the number of subscribers has already crossed the
first thousand mark. That's just because of the sheer reach of Facebook.
 | Posted by Azziet Singh follow me on twitter |