Comments on: Et tu, Twitter? – Will New Social Media Render Blogging Obsolete?

By: Melissa Johnson

Melissa Johnson — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:34:56 +0000

Oh no! I hope that we donâ€™t become a text nation Andrew! Twitter is an upgraded text message with a marketing twist. There will always be people that find a deeper meaning in communicating more than just one line with their audience to share an idea.

By: Lightening

Lightening — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:54:34 +0000

Hopefully the Twitter craze will settle down soon. I think blogging and forums have taken a knock from the move into Twitter but once it’s no longer the “new” thing, I think we’ll see things settle into a healthy balance. At least I hope so. I’m not a big fan of Twitter myself. While I do use it occasionally, mostly I find it too distracting.

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By: Leo Dimilo

Leo Dimilo — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:25:59 +0000

I doubt blogging will go away. While many people have started to feed a full blown twitter addiction, most of the meaningful convo on twitter typically points to…..blogs or news stories. Without places to link to, twitter would be far less entertaining.

Plus, you have to realize that only a small fraction of people actually lose twitter and I have found that the small fraction of my local friends that do use twitter (and aren’t geeks) don’t really tweet in the same way that us geeks do.

Finally, a lot of information on blogs that are “how-to” or breaking stories will still get traffic via organic search.

Will it thin out the blogging ranks? God, I hope so. But I doubt that twitter will pummel “blogs”.