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Facebook categorize users in networks. Network could be your city, country, company or university. It makes easy for Facebook to show relevant data based on the users networks. Facebook was launched with Networks filter which made it different from other social networks but last year when Facebook did the redesign of Facebook, it ditched Networks filter on homepage. Users were still able to join a network but there was no way to filter out user by a given network like it was before.

Now Facebook has restored this old functionality. You can see a list of top 5 networks of your friends. This time Facebook doesn’t consider city or country as a network. It shows only schools, colleges, universities and companies as networks. You can see the list of ‘Networks with your friends’ on your Facebook profile page under the friend section.

Twitter vs Facebook is not only a raged war between two big companies, on ground battle between respective users is very well known. With every major news story when Twitter makes the headlines, Twitter vs Facebook issue hits the social network pundits. Below are some documented facts about how many Facebook users are actually fans of Facebook service and how many Twitter users are fans followers of Twitter. An interesting insight into brand loyalty in social networks can be drawn from these facts!

Given that Twitter is comparatively new and only shares 6% of social network market share compared to staggering 37% of Facebook this comparison should be taken with a pinch of salt.

1. There are more fans of Facebook on Facebook than that of Twitter’s on Facebook!

2. There are more fans followers of Twitter on Twitter than that of Facebook’s on Twitter!

• That’s not the end of the story, one can easily deduce from above facts about the loyality of users with the social network they use. So, user of a social service actually likes it more than other available social networks – surprise surprise.
• Another conclusion can be drawn about being a user of a social network and fans slash follower of “other”; here with a slight margin Facebook is in lead in this Facebook vs Twitter mania which can be attributed to its gigantic market share.