Is Twitter Killing My Blog?
The article is by a woman named SuperJive and it talks about her six month experience with Twitter. She writes about how she enjoyed using Twitter, but eventually started to realize that her blog was paying the price.
“I started losing some of these snapshots of my life because the energy needed to create them was being funneled into the Twittersuck. I was blogging much less, and I missed it. I think I realized I was getting to the breaking point with it sometime in February at about two in the morning. I am often sleepless here in Seattle in January and February because of the low levels of light (something, interestingly, I discovered about myself through blogging for several years about cleaning or writing papers at three a.m. in the winter months.) I was having a tweetversaion with this guy in New York who I only knew through Twitter. We were batting one-liners back and forth because he was up very early, I was up very late, and no one else was around. What was the point of all this?”
I have to say I am feeling the same way. I love Twitter and I really enjoy the people I have met because of it, but my blog is starting to feel the toll. If you scan down, or visit often, you’ve probably noticed that I haven’t been blogging as much. I think it’s because I’ve been sharing via Twitter, and then not blogging about it because I felt it was almost like duplication.
I need to find the right balance between the two. I miss blogging. I don’t think I could go cold turkey and give up Twitter like SuperJive, but I know I can’t let my blog suffer either.
If you are using Twitter (or Plurk) and you write a blog too, how are you handling it? Blogging more? Blogging less? Twittering only on certain topics?
Would love to hear your thoughts and advice.
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Sorry that I can’t give you any comment on Twitter. But I do thought of finding out more as I see lots of bloggers are using it. I’m glad I read this in your blog which will make me judge better. Thanks.
I love Twitter. I use it for more of the mundane things that I wouldn’t be meaty enough for a blog. Sometimes something happens because of Twitter that I end up blogging about.
So maybe it isn’t one or the other but deciding which info you want disseminated where.
I usually throw a line up on Twitter every other day; just a little thought. At first I thought about writing mundane things like “getting ready to iron.” But, then I realized I don’t care if people iron, so why would they care if I did. You know.
I put myself on a blog writing schedule and I find if I Twitter the off days that it actually enhances my blog, I think.
Great topic of discussion! Definitely worth talking about more in depth.
We are on the same wavelength, although I have NOT signed up for Twitter. Just posting about it this morning.
Not counting the last month as an example (hey, I’ve been on vacation in another state!) I don’t think Twitter is a detriment to my blog. Not only do my new blog entries get posted to my Twitter feed, but I use Twitter for more than just ‘micro-blogging’… I use it to keep in touch with my fiancee and friends (and vice versa) to know where everyone is.
I use Twitter a lot to touch base with my husband when we’re off doing different things. But I know what you mean. I have heard a few bloggers talk about getting so caught up in Twitter that their blog suffers.
Twitter is for those little moments, not quite blog-worthy but maybe interesting or relevant to your “followers.” I’ve discovered some interesting and fun stuff through Twitter. But I wouldn’t be able to communicate most of my blog post ideas in 140 characters or less. Just not possible.