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Thursday, March 19, 2009
Twitter on the Daily Show
The end of blogs?
The demise of blogging and the rise of Twitter has been predicted for some time.
In my own experience I find that I blog less and tweet more. On the other hand, traffic sources to my ThoughtSpurs blog are increasingly from Twitter.
One of the issues with Twitter is that information on Twitter is transitory, whereas blogs have a permanence that allow the information in them to be archived and searched (located) by Google and other search engines.
Twitter is useful for promoting fresh content on your blog or web site. If the content is interesting and relevant the message may be retweeted to wider, secondary networks.
I'm inclined to the view that microblogging's exponential rise in popularity is interesting but it would be wrong to view it as evidence of the demise of other forms.
Different media formats have always proven useful for different tasks. Messages of less than 140 characters have their limitations as well as their opportunities.
The trick is to work them out.
In my own experience I find that I blog less and tweet more. On the other hand, traffic sources to my ThoughtSpurs blog are increasingly from Twitter.
One of the issues with Twitter is that information on Twitter is transitory, whereas blogs have a permanence that allow the information in them to be archived and searched (located) by Google and other search engines.
Twitter is useful for promoting fresh content on your blog or web site. If the content is interesting and relevant the message may be retweeted to wider, secondary networks.
I'm inclined to the view that microblogging's exponential rise in popularity is interesting but it would be wrong to view it as evidence of the demise of other forms.
Different media formats have always proven useful for different tasks. Messages of less than 140 characters have their limitations as well as their opportunities.
The trick is to work them out.
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