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microblogging markdykeman November 15th. 2008, 8:49am

It doesn’t get any easier than this:

Twitter is the new (or replacement) web log.

Links, short commentary, etc. And very easy to use. Twitter followers make things very interesting.

Do you agree? If not, why not?

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Neal Jansons

Definitely. That is one of the reason I don't have a problem with people using it just for that, and not really getting involved in the community. I definitely use microblogs as blogs, as well as for communication, though I am also currently narrowing down my web presence a bit and using FriendFeed as my primary hub.

Mark Dykeman

But doesn't Twitter have its own community?

Neal Jansons

Oh, of course, and I do get involved in the community, I am a chatter, not just a microblogger. I use it for both. But I understand the people who just use it like a blog, without the chatting and back-and-forth. I'm just not one of them.

Mark Dykeman

ok, gotcha

Mark Dykeman

@Adam - yes, I've heard Twitter called the Water Cooler before, but I think it can be more than that

@iGoByDoc - my point, however, is that the original web logs were not used for long form posts and that "blogs" evolved into long-form content management systems.

@Kaitlin - I really must check out Twitpic

AdamSinger

Yes and no...the one thing is with your blog, there is the feeling of individuality - Twitter feels more to me like the water cooler of the internet.

iGoByDoc

I do not think Twitter replaces your blog at all, I think Twitter can enhance your blogging activities. Sometimes you need to say more than the 140 characters, and on twitter you just can not do that.

Now, if you are person w/o a blog, that may be another story.

- Doc

jeber

I find Tumblr to be the easiest mini-blogging platform. Using "Share on Tumblr" bookmark, I can post near anything with a couple of clicks without having to go to the site.

Mark Dykeman

Hi Jeber! You can do similar things with the Twurl bookmark. You can use it to automate link creation and post to your Twitter account automatically.

anaulin

Twitter posts are too short, don't allow content other than text, and have little support for tracking comments/conversation around a given post; this makes Twitter != blog. Plus, the brevity and the immediacy of Twitter encourages a mode of thinking unlike that of blogging.

Mark Dykeman

I would argue that blogging has evolved past the original link posting, "journal of my web surfing" to primary long form content. It's not wrong by any means, I'm just saying that microblogging has taken over a lot of what the original web logs used to do, just like how people automate the posting of their social bookmarks into their "blogs".

insideislamblog

Twitpic is the replacement tumblr.

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