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On the other hand, Safari can't provide push notifications for Facebook events such as messages,
Timeline posts, friend requests and confirmations, photo tags, events, or comments, whereas the
iPad app does all that and more.
The bottom line is that there's nothing to prevent having the best of both worlds. So if you're a heavy
Facebook user, consider using the Facebook iPad app for some things (such as push notifications
and status updates) and Safari for others (such as reading your Wall or News Feeds).
Twitter
Twitter puts a slightly different spin on social networking. Unlike Facebook, it doesn't try to be all-
encompassing or offer dozens of features, hoping that some of them will appeal to you. Instead,
Twitter does one thing and does it well. That thing is letting its users post short messages, or
tweets,
quickly and easily from a variety of platforms, including web browsers, mobile phones, smart-
phones, and other devices.
Twitter users then have the option of following any other Twitter user's tweets. The result is a stream
of short messages like the ones shown in Figure
13-10
.
