Is Twitter the new Blog?
Posted by davidgrahammd on 21 October 2008 - 7:33pm.
More folks who have maintained blogs (or continue to maintain a blog),such as Stephen Fry, are establishing a Twitter account www.twitter.com and updating them on a regular basis.
Blog entries just seem to call for more content (as measured by word count) and hopefully a more thought out construction of thoughts and/or ideas. You also need access to a computer and your blogging account or the software you use to update your website's blog entries.
On the other hand, a tweet can simply be "I am at xxx" and can be entered via your cell phone. It can be updated many times a day, easily.
Will we see a transition away from blogs to tweets?
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Honestly, no.
Although everyone from Stephen Fry to MC Hammer now seem to be tweeting, unless they actually come up with a way to monetise it, they'll be gone when the current dot com bubble bursts (lots of users, no business model, huge server costs = profit how?).
And with laconi.ca (essentially Twitter's framework) being free, I don't see how they're going to make it work, as people will just migrate away if it gets stuffed full of ads.
Also, don't people want more depth than 140 characters can provide?
I hope not
That'll make me 2 behind. I don't blog other than this (and I'm not sure if this really counts?)
I don't
want to know where everybody is, what they are doing, who they are talking to, which shop they're in, which celebrity they've just seen in the street, what they've eaten, drunk, injected, which beach they're lying on etc etc etc
Makes me wonder how we survived all those years when we couldn't communicate with the whole world 24/7. For example, how did people cope at gigs when they couldn't text their mates all night? (sorry, went a bit off-thread there....)
I am typing
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I am reading the paper
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I am going to make a cup of tea
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I'll stop now
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I always
take stephen fry's techno evangelism with a pinch of salt as he seems to make his money using 19th/20th century media. Ie TV programmes, the print media, books and films. Most of the techy stuff is something to spend his spare cash on in between old skool jobs. Even his podcast seemed to be produced like radio programmes.