I like to put many technologies into comparison and analyze the possible outcome based on actions & reactions by the people in charge.

Twitter have the following advantages.

1. No Real name policies, in fact they do have that that essentially, with the real conversations by the user…they have basically can find out the person’s identities & network.
2. Easy to manage privacy settings, it’s simple just set public or private & only followers can see what you post there is no confusion!
3. The following & followed method is much cleaner and can weed out unwanted spam & vulgar users by “unfollowing” them hence this method auto self moderate the users
4. 140 characters means you spend less time to read more topics, you don’t waste the whole day filtering long post unless it’s a blog post that you are interested in.
5. It’s like a conversation, the threaded conversations & notifications makes twitter feels more like a personal instant messaging tool instead of micro blogging that it was once described as.
6. Multiple clients support & cross platform, understanding twitter is the ONLY 100% cross platform social network that have above average satisfactory applications for all devices naming iPhone, iPad, Andriod and even feature phones.
7. There’s no vulgarities & ugly people in twitter just unfollow them! Simple!

There are probably a lot more reasons why you may think twitter is so much better then the rest of the competition but facebook comes a close 2nd place for me.

The reason facebook is 2nd place because of confusing privacy settings, advertising privacy horrors and of course more game invitations spam, I know they had improved over the years but the feeling linger on and it’s hard to push the feeling away.

Google+ had a great beginning as most people are familiar on how a social network works but google+ essentially started off too fast with some troubling policies problems to begin with, if they change their policies (Real name policies) & put profanity filters (replace vulgar words with nicer sounding words or ****) into every part of google+ it will probably work well.

However, if google+ don’t act fast enough and managed the PR nightmare of pissing off many influential people in the global communities by deleting accounts due to the real name policies…google+ may end up to be another Google Buzz or Google Wave yet again.

Overall, twitter have my best votes & the only thing twitter needs to do is to open up their commercial departments to allow advertisers search twitter for keywords related to their products & or services & allow these advertisers to “assist” or “recommend” a viable product or services to HELP the twitter user.

However, it should not be a tweet bot that automate tweeting by detecting keywords as there are no “replies” for confirmation if the “product” is actually real or worth it.

Human can sense another auto tweet easily hence a real person should be behind the twitter account offering assistance or “recommendation” in a way a sales person will say but in a more friendly & personal way like a friend’s recommendations.