{"id":9102,"date":"2009-09-02T14:56:07","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T13:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/is-twitter-destroying-blogging\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:20:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:20:36","slug":"is-twitter-destroying-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/is-twitter-destroying-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Twitter destroying blogging?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2009\/09\/twitter.png\" alt=\"Twitter logo\" align=\"left\" \/>While browsing through the comments on OnSoftware, I discovered the blog of one commenter who had written a post called <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/subcorpus.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/twitter-is-killing-my-blog\/\">Twitter is killing my blog<\/a><\/strong> and it got me thinking. One of the main reasons for his preference for Twitter was that it&#8217;s an &#8220;easy avenue to be connected&#8221; that he felt &#8220;a sense of participation&#8221; and that he got instant feedback when asking for opinions.<\/p>\n<p>Some of this rings very true. I&#8217;ve also noticed a drop-off in blogging from blogs I follow whose writers have concentrated more on using Twitter. Communications consultant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markevanstech.com\/2009\/01\/26\/is-twitter-killing-blogs-and-blogging\/\">Mark Evans<\/a> claims he also noticed the same thing a while back.<\/p>\n<p>I think there&#8217;s several reasons for this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tweeting is quick and easy<\/strong>. Using a Twitter client involves far less fuss than a blogging interface such as WordPress or Blogger. Perhaps most importantly, issuing a tweet cuts far less into your working day than putting together a well thought-out blog post.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Twitter provides a greater sense of being connected<\/strong>. Because it&#8217;s so easy to update, regular tweeters tend to do so much more frequently than they blog fostering a greater sense of inter-communication. Searching by keywords also instantly puts you in touch with people with shared interests.<\/li>\n<li><strong>There&#8217;s no waffle in tweeting<\/strong>. It&#8217;s easy to wax lyrical in a blog post but you simply can&#8217;t afford to do that in a 140 character tweet. People have to get to the point immediately (even if it&#8217;s only to say, &#8220;I just went to the bathroom&#8221;).<\/li>\n<li><strong>It&#8217;s ideal for short attention spans<\/strong>. We&#8217;re bombarded with so much information everyday that attention spans are inevitable getting shorter. The brevity of tweets means that Twitter is the perfect outlet to tap into this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Maybe then it should be no surprise if more bloggers are moving towards Tweeting. However, what I&#8217;d prefer to see is more bloggers using Twitter to promote things they&#8217;ve written on their blog or complement their blogging in some way. Tweeting can never allow the degree of expressiveness, discussion and analysis that blogging does and it would be a shame to see the better bloggers out there ditch their blogs in the name of quick tweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While browsing through the comments on OnSoftware, I discovered the blog of one commenter who had written a post called Twitter is killing my blog and it got me thinking. One of the main reasons for his preference for Twitter was that it&#8217;s an &#8220;easy avenue to be connected&#8221; that he felt &#8220;a sense of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/is-twitter-destroying-blogging\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is Twitter destroying blogging?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2358],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-9102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiontwitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335392,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102\/revisions\/335392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9102"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=9102"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=9102"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=9102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}