Comments on: Blogs vs Twitter? It’s the Interactivity

By: Joitske

Joitske — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:04:42 +0000

I fully agree with the complementarity. It may even help to get blogging beyond the hype. (like phoning is not a hype, you just use it..). The capacity to reciprocate is much higher in twitter. when someone wants to follow me, I follow them back. But in my blog I don’t know who is reading and why.

By: Charles H. Green

Charles H. Green — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:13:27 +0000

I find them complementary.

I use twitter as an intelligent RSS headline feed, assuming interesting writers will write interesting intros to their blogs. It tells me which blogs to read.

I try to tweet the same way, giving people fast-search entree to what I believe will be of interest to those who have chosen to follow the “brand” I’m creating.

By: Rochelle

Rochelle — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:34:04 +0000

BANG ON! I’m so tired of the constant complaints about twitter. Oi!

By: Lindsay Griffiths

Lindsay Griffiths — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:03:26 +0000

I also agree that twitter doesn’t replace blogs and instead serves to increase their exposure. As you said, following someone’s twitter stream day to day helps you to get to know them and if they write a blog, I’m much more likely to read their posts because I “know” them through twitter. There are a number of blogs that I read now, or at least individual posts, that I never would have found independently (such as this one). I think the two certainly complement each other, and I look forward to seeing how that continues!

By: Nancy Baym

Nancy Baym — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:03:40 +0000

Uh oh — do I walk down the hall to talk to you face to face Dave or respond here? I did see Pitts’s column, which I found unusually shallow for him and which demonstrated a totally predictable stereotypical outsider take on Twitter. Last week there were so many editorials, articles and even comics (Doonesbury!) took on Twitter and almost all with the same not even close to insightful analysis that it’s banal.

By: Lisa Quinn

Lisa Quinn — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:56:21 +0000

In no way shape or form is Twitter even trying to replace the blog. If anything Twitter should be used as a writer’s marketing function to better expose their site or column. Blogging is still a forum utilized to voice an opinion on a subject, therefore, will not literally die off as projected. Social networks must encourage the blog as a type of personal outlet of artist freedom found on the web. Take eZanga’s http://www.HopOnThis.com for example. Not only are they encouraging member content, but they are rewarding their members for it. Their user generated content allots a specific number of points that can be traded in for prizes, cash, and gift cards

By: davetell

davetell — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:58:23 +0000

Nancy–you saw Pitts op-ed in the LJW last week on the Twitter and confessional culture? An odd confluence of our two research agendas.

PS: I am still unclear on what, precisely, twitter is.

PS2: the death of blogs? I hadn’t heard. But as you have no doubt heard, author’s are dead too, and that hasn’t had much of an impact. So I’m not too worried.