r/TheoryOfReddit on Reddit: The main difference between Reddit and Twitter.

So I have been a regular user of both Reddit and Twitter for quite some while now (ca. 2 years or so). I noticed that Twitter and Reddit have kind of a "friendly" (ok, sometimes unfriendly) rivalry going on. Now, obviously there are many reason for that, as both Reddit and Twitter are important social networks/discussion websites that are quite different from each other. There are of course many ways in which Reddit and Twitter are different, but what it boils down to essentially is this (my thesis basically):