Earlier this month social media site Twitter, and Apple tech powerhouse together to make tweeting easier for iPhone, iPod touch users.
Apple owners will now be able to tweet directly from your camera, photos, maps, YouTube and Safari apps.
Twitter rival Facebook - partly owned by Microsoft - not expected to have similar functions to produce the iPhone.
Twitter has grown in popularity recently with an estimated 300,000 new users to the site every day.
But from January 2011 Facebook had 600 million users, 400 million more users than Twitter did in March.
According to Digital Buzz Blog are 206.2 million Internet users in the U.S. - that is, 71.2 percent of the Web audience is on Facebook. One in 13 people on earth have a Facebook. Half of them come every day. Forty-eight percent of 18-34 year old check Facebook first thing in the morning - 28 percent check out Facebook on their smartphones before getting out of bed.
430,406 Facebook users @ LSU side while LSU has only 4,105 followers on Twitter.
LSU student fits pattern of the nation.
Facebook still dominate, but Twitter is more trailers.
Molly McGehee, psychology sophomore, uses both Twitter and Facebook, but Facebook says they frequently visit.
"There are more things to do on Facebook. I use it for more photos and I like the ability to view everyone's activities all in one place, like the news feed," she said. "You may have more on Facebook, as the entire album."
Timmy Dasing also uses both mediums, but prefer Twitter.
"Twitter is a person to really keep in touch with the world possible. Up into account not only friends but also news and celebrities," said junior kinesiology.
Mechanical engineering junior Chris Merica also prefer to Twitter, but it seems Facebook is more common among students.
"Facebook is more effective to give me permission to stay in touch with friends ... but I like Twitter more, because it feels less formal and visible," he said.
Bianca Moore is not a treble, but predicted the site will be more popular on campus.
"I'm not on Twitter, but I love it. ... First it was tagged, then MySpace, then Facebook and now Twitter. I think that Twitter is the new thing," said junior theater.
Alyssa Forbes, junior computer science, prefer Twitter because it's a casual environment.
"Twitter is less involved. You can say anything and not have to like people," she said. "Popularity - I think it depends on who you talk to a lot of people saying Facebook is dead, but others believe that it is still king ... the rising popularity of Twitter, and I think they get as close to .. ".
Others complain Twitter.
"I can proudly say that I do not Twitter, but I use Facebook," said sporting director directs junior Marques Kibodaux. "Twitter is basically useless."
General studies senior Claire Garrett said that when it comes to numbers, Facebook wins.
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