Comments on: Does Twittering mean you blog less? The answer might surprise you.

By: Polymer Studios::Blog » Blog Archive » A massive, subprime bailout of links

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:18:19 +0000

[...] his blogging activity. He also points to an early post on this topic by Ryan Block of Engadget: Does Twittering mean you blog less? The answer might surprise you. Personally, I’ve been seeing the effect on my own blogging. Heck, it’s way easier to [...]

By: Here, There and Everywhere

Here, There and Everywhere — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:45:43 +0000

[...] like to write thoughtful blog entries. Having been an editor, I can’t find it in myself to “twitter” a few lines or ramble on about something that’s really not of any [...]

By: 140Char » How much is enough when it comes to microblogging

140Char » How much is enough when it comes to microblogging — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:37:29 +0000

[...] For starters, how fragmented will my identity become? I already have another blog, a profile on LinkedIn, a profile on a group magazine project, a profile on Facebook, one on Myspace, and one on Twitter. And that’s just the main sites I use on a day-to-day basis. And any reasonable input into microblogging requires a lot of time - enough to have an effect on the blogging output of a lot of people. Although surprisingly it can have a positive effect. [...]

By: Corvida

Corvida — Sun, 25 May 2008 17:59:39 +0000

Not blogging less at all. It’s actually helping me to blog more. I just have less time to blog for other reasons that are completely unrelated to Twitter.

By: Cat Laine

Cat Laine — Sun, 25 May 2008 17:34:35 +0000

I’ve found that twittering means I use my google reader less, but blog about the same. The time spent on each piece however is much reduced.

By: Ryan Block

Ryan Block — Sun, 25 May 2008 16:37:19 +0000

Hard to say, I probably just had a little more free time in March. But looking at the bigger picture, the ultimate difference between March and April is really only just a couple of hours of actual time spent Twittering or blogging.

By: Graeme Thickins

Graeme Thickins — Sat, 24 May 2008 11:23:34 +0000

Ryan, what caused the huge spike in March, and then the big drop-off in April?

thanks.

By: Vance

Vance — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:34:36 +0000

Blog: here are my thoughts on __________.

Microblog: hey, I just noticed _________.
does anyone know about _________?
I am very frustrated with ________.
I just did ____________ and it was cool/not cool.

The downside if Twittering replaced blogging is that it could prevent that occasional “sit down and organize my thoughts on a subject” process. Might we not slowly become more disjointed and fragmented in our approach to things? This may be allocating too much significance to a simple process, of course.

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 23 May 2008 12:37:52 +0000

I don’t see any problem if Twitter cuts into someone’s proper blogging, I kinda see as a distiller. Not everything warrants a 1000 word, formally written blog post. If a blogger does 140 characters of what he thinks may be a good post subject, and he gets lots of replies and re-Tweets, then uses that feedback to graduate the subject, great, yet another use for Twitter.

I would only be concerned if Twitter cut into your extremely entertaining Engadget posts, which are frequently the highlight of my day at work ( The upcoming 3G iPhone launch hourly posts covering the madness FTW! )

By: Daryl Tay

Daryl Tay — Fri, 23 May 2008 02:02:51 +0000

I’ve realised that Twitter inversely relates with my rss reader rather than blogging. I used to read 100+ items a day, now it’s down to about 60. The spare time’s all on Twitter. I still blog as regularly as I used to.

By: tommy russo

tommy russo — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:32:11 +0000

thanks for graph Ryan. VERY interesting results. I’d love to see if more people are seeing silat trends.

By: Victor

Victor — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:30:23 +0000

ooo, I’m so doing this next week! but yeah, I think the correlation will hold.