14 DAY TRIAL // Twitter has recently launched Twitter Tales, a new service that encourages members to share stories describing the particular manner they use Twitter in their everyday life.
Twitter, just like all the emerging social networks out there, is constantly coming up with new challenges to attract users and keep them alert as much as possible.
The latest Twitter section will gradually list all the articles sent by users to the email address shown on the official blog page, as long as they describe personal ways of using Twitter.
According to the post of Carolyn Penner, the newly-launched Twitter section will function as ‘a growing set of articles that highlights creative individuals and businesses from all corners of the world that help make Twitter awesome.’
Additionally, Twitter Tales not only tries to point out talented users, but it also aims to ‘inspire others to use the service in innovative and interesting ways.’
As soon as users have submitted their ideas regarding Twitter usage, all the other will be able to access them by clicking the dedicated icon on the sidebar of the Twitter Blog.
On the other hand, some might say that Twitter merely adopts Facebook features after they have proven successful, considering Facebook Stories is, according to the official blog, a collection ‘on different ways Facebook is used across the world.’
Probably the difference between these two services resides in the approach Twitter and Facebook users will choose for their tales and stories, respectively.
While Mark Zuckerberg’s social network allows people to depict all sorts of situations and strategies, unhindered of any rules, regulations or restrictions, Twitter Tales services comes with three pre-defined sections, namely Life, Community and Humor.
However, since the users story idea is not exclusive to the two competing social platforms, as YouTube also features a similar service, we will have to wait and see if Twitter Tales really catches on to its targeted users, or if it will eventually go up in smoke.