Amy Gahran, who I’ve been following on Twitter, writes an interesting post about her experiences using Twitter vs. her standard blogs. Quoting from her post:
…I remember that blogs have always been an awkward tool to satisfy my deepest desires for conversational media. Yeah, I love to write — but I tend to find quality conversation far more rewarding and satisfying than merely writing. Despite all Twitter’s limitations and weaknesses (which are many) I find it to be a superior conversational media tool. In many ways.
She also seems to say that her Twitter activity is increasing while her personal blogging is decreasing, especially since Twitter “feels” like a better platform for conversations.
I have made over 1400 Twitter posts, compared to probably half of that number for my blogs. However, I’ve certainly written much, much more in total word count in the blogs than in Twitter posts.
If anything, my output is probably larger due to using Twitter. However, I do have a distinction of subject matter in these two platforms:
I may write about Twitter here at Broadcasting Brain (among other things), but I try to limit the subject material to communications (broadly defined) and social media.
With Twitter… it feels more like a brain dump. Generally speaking I don’t restrict myself to any particular subject matter in Twitter. In fact, I let a lot of my geek and fannish roots hang out in Twitter and I’ll leave the occasional real-life status update there as well.
I’m not doing as much blogging as Amy G., so I probably don’t have the same time restrictions as she does.
I definitely think that Twitter has some advantages as a conversation platform, although as I’ve said earlier this week, I don’t think Twitter is a good platform to hold a debate.
Thought provoking post, Amy!
For those of you who blog and Twitter, do you think either platform is suffering because of the other?
Tell us what you think, please!
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