Before Twitter all of our thoughts where focussed into our blog and discussions took place on both our own blogs and other people’s blogs. You referred to other’s blogs in your own posts and continued the conversation that way.
Now we see a blog post that we find interesting, Tweet it and then continue the conversation on Twitter. Obviously conversations do still continue on the blog post as it is easier to comment and follow the discussion within that format, but has Twitter diluted the discussion and caused us to blog less? Instead of sharing our ideas in a well thought out blog post do we simply quickly write them out in 140 characters, possibly losing the essence of what we mean?
As Twitter is evolving I am finding that my blog is still the best place to publish my main ideas, but I’m not sure that this is the case for everyone. It will be interesting to see how blogs evolve and whether micro-blogging is sustainable within the whirlwind of spam that is currently afflicting it.
Hi Tasha,
I’ve always had that concern too: can Twitter and blogging coexist?
I interpret Twitter and traditional blogging almost as two different ways of thought. Whereas Twitter is the 100 meter sprint, blogging is the 5K.
Hi Jessica
I really like that analogy. I do think that people are starting to adapt their thoughts and separate the two as being different channels of communication.