Has Twitter changed how we blog?
In the last few months since I started using Twitter, I found that if I wanted to throw an idea out to the ‘net, I could do so in 140 characters or less and get feedback from other people directly. This was a satisfying way of having a small, isolated conversation about a particular topic I had running around in my brain at the time without the need to write several paragraphs on the subject.
Take this blog post, for example. I could have simply taken the title and sent it out via Twitter and gotten my responses back that way. Would that have been enough? Not really. I found that by sending tweets out for topics that warrant a blog post, I’m essentially being lazy. By not taking the time to throughly write out what I want to say about a subject, I’m not only cheating myself out of a potentially good piece of writing, but I’m lessening the value of what I write.
Has anyone else found themselves using Twitter as a quick and dirty blog post?
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Comments
Annie,
That’s pretty much my point. I’m trying hard to not use Twitter as a blog, but the appeal of getting instant responses is very compelling. I’d also throw Seesmic into the mix as a venue for putting ideas out to people on the ‘net.
Aye.. I tend to throw out so many tweets, when it comes time to blogging… I feel a definite case of writers block.. or.. “well.. I’ve already mentioned that..” *shrug* mind you… i tend to tweet more personal shit than professional.. *shrug again*
Yep. For me it’s not so much that I’m tweeting about things I should blog about, but rather that I’m not feeling so pulled to write for my blog as I was before, since that itch is being scratched by Twitter.
It’s definitely lazy of me!