Which is better for SEO Facebook or Twitter?

[nicole.healthline]

If you could choose between a tweet from an influencer or a post from a Facebook fan "influencer"? Which would you choose?

[NerdsOnCall]

If the FB mention had a link in it, I would choose the Facebook share. In the ranking factors for 2011 release Facebook has WAY more influence on Seo then twitter (especially now that google and twitter no longer have their "real time stream" agreement)

[Syed1]

Google still does not have access to Facebook data, specifically to private walls of 100s of millions of users where a big majority of links are shared. Google has the tweet links and other data shared on Twitter and tweeted links has been shown to improve ranks even if temporarily. I'd vote for Twitter in terms of SEO at the moment but this might change should there be some sort of data sharing agreement between Google and Facebook.

You might also want to read this article regarding Twitter signals & its effect on rankings: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/tweets-effect-rankings-unexpected-case-study

[johnshearer]

Facebook....although everybody is putting a link to their facebook page from their homepage which is is giving juice to FB...unless you really have lots of engaged fans 1000+

[nicole.healthline]

Can you send the link? I see http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors#predictions but don't see a break down of facebook vs twitter