I’ve decided to give up on Twitter. I haven’t used it in months now and I don’t seem to miss it. I’ll keep my account but I won’t be using it much. I hate to say it, but Facebook rules the world now.

About three years ago Twitter was the greatest thing. It was one of the first products allowing to share short status messages with other people though a website, a desktop application, the mobile web, mobile applications and even SMS. The great idea behind Twitter was to build not just a website but a service which is accessible from many interfaces through an API.

But Facebook, back then just a website, transformed into a service too. These days Facebook has status updates, a location-based check-in feature, apps for various mobile operating systems and APIs. Most of my friends are on Facebook, hardly anyone uses Twitter. For me, Facebook wins over Twitter.

Twitter as a search engine provides limited value too. Over the years It has become a place for spammers and SEOs (which is pretty much the same thing). There are so many fake accounts even advertising networks for paid tweets. Whatever you search for, the results are full of junk.

Nowadays I mainly use Facebook updates to stay on top of my friends’ lives. The only extra value that Twitter provides at this stage is communication during events like conferences and trade shows. It’s a very powerful way to monitor what’s happening where. We will see when that functionality is being adopted by Facebook.