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Twitter vs. Blogging – Twitter Makes Blogs Better

Posted by John Saddington on Mar 23, 2009

My brother Tony blogged the other day about his thoughts on Twitter in comparison to Blogging.

Some key takeaways from him:

  • micTwitter is easier to scan. Less is more. People gravitate to shorter messages.
  • Twitter is more social. It’s easier to engage the crowd around a brief shot of wisdom or a story or a question.
  • Twitter is more viral. It’s easy to grab an insight and share it with friends.
  • Twitter is more intuitive. To follow someone, I just click “follow.” Blogs still require a bit of an understanding of RSS feeds.

The net-net result of his thoughtlog is that he’d rather Tweet it up than blog. No problem with that sir!

I’d say, in response, that Twitter is making blogs better.

Twitter is not blogging. It’s microblogging. It’s actually empowering those that blog.

You see, every “tweet” is a blog post that hasn’t been written. If that’s true (and it is), then tweeting is a farm-ground for great blog post ideas.

I’m “farming” more than ever.

Secondly, the simple fact is that every tweet isn’t being blogged. Period. When a blog post does happen and/or is created, the value of the blog post is increased.

As one commenter put it:

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Blogging is here to stay, and we can thank Twitter for that.

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John Saddington

John is the Chief Editor @ The 8BIT Network and Senior Blog Junkie here at ChurchCrunch.He enjoys Triple-Tall Americanos, developing Wordpress Themes, and a few other Random Things.

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10 Responses to “Twitter vs. Blogging – Twitter Makes Blogs Better”

  1. Trappermark
    Monday, March 23, 2009 at 12:09 pm

    Another way Twitter and blogging work together well: I see my blog as the "read more" to some of my Tweets. The tweet gives the nugget thought; if the follower wants to hear more of my thoughts on the matter, she can follow the link to a (fuller) blog post about it.

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  2. Phillip Gibb
    Monday, March 23, 2009 at 12:15 pm

    hmmm, twitter is a extension to blogging.
    but as a substitute – it would be like shooting shotgun shells into water.

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  3. Phillip Gibb
    Monday, March 23, 2009 at 1:29 pm

    Here is a way – to get around 140 characters: http://shriink.org
    and here is what I twittered: http://twitter.com/phillipgibb/statuses/137541098...

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  4. Graham Brenna
    Monday, March 23, 2009 at 9:56 pm

    I decided on my next blog post topic earlier today because of a DM conversation I was having with a fellow Twitterer! Twitter definitely encourages blogging!

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  5. human3rror
    Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 2:32 am

    i've used a shotgun before…!

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  6. human3rror
    Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 2:33 am

    you deviant you…

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  7. human3rror
    Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 2:34 am

    that's a good way of looking at it… but can you imagine some of the garbage from my “read more” tweets…?

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  8. Jim
    Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 6:43 am

    twitter makes blogging sexy

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  9. online stock trading guru
    Sunday, January 10, 2010 at 7:35 pm

    There is obviously a lot to know about this. There are some good points here.

    I’m Out! :)

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