I was over on the BlogHer site tonight when I stumbled across an article on Twitter that caught my eye.

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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