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 <hwalls@wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Halla Imam <himam@wikimedia.org> 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 <hwalls@wikimedia.org> 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 <himam@wikimedia.org> 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:


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 



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Heather Walls
Communications Design Manager
WikimediaFoundation.org
heather@wikimedia.org




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WikimediaFoundation.org
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