The main difference between Twitter and Facebook in the sports world is arguably the media coverage. Twitter’s format of 140 characters allows the media to pick up on things that can be looked at in the same vain as controversial or fun sound bytes by an athlete.
To be frank, the facebook status of the day has not been done because Twitter has cornered that market. Facebook is often a more private social networking site than Twitter. To see an athlete’s facebook page one usually has to add the person as a friend, and then wait for them to confirm it. Even after one is confirmed as a friend, there is no guarantee that an athlete does not have certain facets of his or her facebook page hidden from fans. Twitter takes a much simpler approach, users can just Google someone’s twitter feed and then begin to follow them. No one has to be confirmed as a “follower” on twitter, but there is an option to block individual users from following you.
Facebook is more about creating a profile, Twitter is just about what one is doing and any Twitter user is much more likely to respond to a Tweet as opposed to a wall post, because responding and posting tweets is what Twitter is all about. Some athletes have contests with fellow team mates about which of them can acquire more followers on Twitter. Twitter is about getting people to follow your account and take notice it. Facebook requires one to confirm each request before any interaction can begin.
That does not mean that Facebook is not on the same level as Twitter by any means. It just means that athletes tend to be more guarded on Facebook or they use it for a particular purpose. Former Georgia running back Knowshon Moreno does not allow his friends on Facebook to see any posts on his wall, and the only pictures he makes available are Georgia football related or they are simply profile pictures. Again, Facebook seems to be for a more personal use than Twitter as things stand now. Not everyone sees it that way though.
