Twitter can be viewed as having multiple facets. One can register and selectively "follow" others. In this case, the messages from followed profiles are streamed like an RSS news feed. if the user wants to narrow down their news feed, they can create lists that include parts of thier followed by users. so the social medium is a personalized news service about topics of your choosing. With twitter one can also attend conferences virtually or following group discussions by searching for the right term following a "#". witter is working on ways to deliver news nearby, like alerts about an earthquake or the closing of a bridge. Twitter’s list of trending topics can now be searched by city. Finally, twitter can be used to get quick answers to questions.
Myspace seems to me like a platform that assists mostly unknown or up-and-coming bands and musicians, as each profile on myspace has its own very unique style, and in the center of it all is the playlist that the artist created. So it's an easy platform for artists to display samples of their work. Unlike facebook or twitter, it's not very useful for constant status updates or news feeds.
As twitter, Facebook can be used for quick status updates or new feeds, but only within the social network of your friends. What you see is limited to who you're Facebook friends with. A new application, Graph Search, will make it possible to search for friends by keywords, such as their interests or what their plans are, making it easy to find common grounds between people and make plans together. Like Myspace and Twitter, Facebook also allows the sharing of videos and pictures.
Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, and effectively an online community, the service is widely used by photo researchers and by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media. Photos and videos can be accessed from Flickr without the need to
register an account but an account must be made in order to upload
content onto the website. Registering an account also allows users to
create a profile page containing photos and videos that the user has
uploaded and also grants the ability to add another Flickr user as a
contact.
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A very well written comparison of different social media website. You covered almost all the key aspects of each of them in simple and short paragraphs. Good work :)
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