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Why I'm Leaving Twitter and Returning to Blogging

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Re: Why I'm Leaving Twitter and Returning to Blogging

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I think both with continue to co-exist and will also see a trend of centralizing our posting at one place. In fact, we are already seeing it with Posterous and Tumblr. It allows much more freedom to users.

I also think twitter is paving way for mainstream blogging, as it attracted so many mainstream users requiring so low commitment from users to engage and got people into habit of opening-up and sharing more and more of their thoughts. Eventually they will sure long for more freedom and blogging is the answer.

Re: Why I'm Leaving Twitter and Returning to Blogging

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're not the only one to have expressed this attitude but I find it strange. How long does it take you to write 140 characters or less? Also, unless people are actively following you you are not "spamming" them. Your summary of what Twitter is good for is accurate as far as it goes but what you are missing is that, when they are timely and from interesting people, those small bits of information can be valuable. I…

> How long does it take you to write 140 characters or less? The proper question would be "how much does the context switching costs?", and the answer would be "a lot". Some estimate it can take 30 minutes to get back into working mode.

So don't do it while you are working.
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