Twitter.com vs Facebook.com

Twitter is an American microblogging and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like and retweet tweets, but unregistered users can only read them. users access Twitter through its site interface or its mobile-device application software, however the service could likewise be accessed by means of SMS before April 2020. 

Twitter, Inc. is situated in San Francisco, California, and has more than 25 offices around the world. Tweets were initially restricted to 140 characters, but was multiplied to 280 for non-CJK languages in November 2017. Audio and video tweets remain limited to 140 seconds for most accounts. 

Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 and launched in July of that year. By 2012, more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search questions each day. 

In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited sites and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet". As of Q1 2019, Twitter had more than 330 million monthly active users. Twitter is a some-to-numerous microblogging service, given that the vast majority of tweets are composed by a small minority of users.

Facebook, Inc. is an American based techonology company founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook is currently a top social media platform for sharing stories and memories which currently obtained over 2.38 billion users accross 180+ countries wordwide.

Facebook.com is a popular social networking and communication service launched on 4th February, 2004. It was established by Mark Zuckerberg with his school flat mates and few members of Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The site's participation was at first restricted by the professors of Harvard student, but it was later extended to different schools in the Ivy League, the Boston region, and gradually to most colleges in the United States/Canada corporations. By September 2006 it was issued to everybody with a valid email address including an age requirement of 13 years and above.

Acquisitions

• In August 2009, Facebook gained social media ongoing news aggregator FriendFeed, a startup made by Gmail's first engineer Paul Buchheit. 
• In February 2010, Facebook purchased Octazen Solutions, a Malaysian contact-fetching startup. 
• On April 2, 2010, Facebook reported securing of a photo sharing assistance called Divvyshot for an undisclosed amount. In June 2010, an online commercial center for exchanging private Facebook stock mirrored a valuation of $11.5 billion.
• On April 12, 2012, Facebook acquired Instagram, an image sharing application around $1 billion in real money and stock. 
• On March 8, 2013, Facebook declared that they acquired the group from Storylane, but not the product itself.
• On October 13, 2013, Facebook gained Onavo, an Israeli investigation organization, for roughly $120 million. 
• On February 19, 2014, Facebook declared its acquisition of WhatsApp, a smartphone instant messaging application for $19 billion out of a mix of stock and money. The purchase is the highest ever paid for a funding sponsored startup. 
• On March 25, 2014, Facebook reported they had obtained computer generated reality startup Oculus VR for $2 billion in real money and stock.
• In April 2020, Facebook, Inc. purchased a 9.9% stake in Jio, which was the most highest foreign direct interest in the Indian innovation sector.
• Access to Facebook is free of charge, and the company generates a large portion of its revenue from ads on the website.