Blogs/RSS out; Twitter in Apr23 '08

Are you on Twitter? If not, you'll soon feel left out.

Although Twitter is not for everyone, the concept has become the new way to follow people - friends, business associates, or just anyone you'd like to meet.

Forget MySpace, personal blogs, and Facebook. Twitter has revolutionized staying in touch.

The old approach involved manually logging into specific social networks, in order to see what others were up to, and provide your own updates. Or maybe you have a personal blog where people leave comments, and their own domains. Following links to their domain, you then subscribed to their RSS feeds, if you found them interesting.

That whole cycle of blogs/RSS has been replaced by Twitter.

I now avoid the process of visiting someone's personal blog, copying the URL, going to my feed reader, pasting the URL - in order to subscribe to their feed. Too many steps. Rather, I'll just hit "Follow" on Twitter, and be done with it.

Content on personal blogs and MySpace/Facebook "walls" is lessening with each passing day. Rather, content is being redirected to Twitter, where it's much easier to post updates from mobile phones or instant-message.

Content is so "few and far between" on personal blogs, I've even started noticing blog updates that only reference Twitter updates from that person, ie: "Twitter updates from this past week."

If your blog only serves to reference your Twitter updates, why keep the blog? Nobody is reading it anyway - they're just reading your Twitter stream.

Personal blogs are losing their value in the light of Twitter.

There is still great value in referential or instructional sites, but for the personal blogs that only talked about the mundane details of life - those have all been migrated to Twitter.

I realize the irony in "blogging about blogging," but I'm doing it anyway.

Categories: Blogging , RSS , Trends , Twitter

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