A couple of reasons would be to allow for more verbose updates on Facebook due to their longer character limit, as well as the ability to tag other people/organisation's Facebook pages (instead of their Twitter handles). There are slightly different audiences on the two platforms as well, though I don't know if this plays much of a role in the difference in messages.
Regards, Charles (User:Chuq, WMAU) On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Heather Walls <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Halla Imam <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Absolutely! Also, is it possible to pull the twitter feed onto the >> Facebook pages? That way FB users can see what we have trending on twitter:) >> > > I'm not sure why we haven't done that before except we've always written > separate ones. > > >> >> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Heather Walls <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I think that's great. Let's send one before it's not Thursday anymore :) >>> >>> Do we want to mention Wikipedia, too? Facebook posts can obviously be >>> longer if we like. >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Halla Imam <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> My name is Halla and I'm the Communications intern in SF. I was >>>> thinking it would be cool to have throwback thursday posts trending/posted >>>> to our social media. Here's a post I think we could put up today: >>>> >>>> #Imagine <https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Imagine> a #world >>>> <https://twitter.com/search?q=%23world> where the @wikimediafoundation >>>> <https://twitter.com/wikimediafoundation> existed in the #1980s >>>> <https://twitter.com/search?q=%231980s> #tbt >>>> <https://twitter.com/search?q=%23tbt> >>>> http://videos.digg.com/post/52023906546/what-wikipedia-would-have-looked-like-in-the >>>> >>>> >>>> Highlighting Wikimedia's history is a fun way is a great way to get >>>> people engaged. There are a ton of trends on twitter/facebook that we could >>>> take advantage of. >>>> >>>> Let me know what you think:) >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> >>>> Halla >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Heather Walls >>> Communications Design Manager >>> WikimediaFoundation.org >>> [email protected] >>> >> >> > > > -- > Heather Walls > Communications Design Manager > WikimediaFoundation.org > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > >
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