Is the easy micro-ness of constant 140 char-max Tweets, with capabilities for linking and sharing pics, going to kill the "art" of blogging, or "macro" blogging?
I think it's doing it for me. It used to be I dropped a topic when I couldn't think of more than a sentence to write, now I can Tweet it from an appropriate account that matches its comparable blog's topic. Or perhaps I'd even ponder the subject for a while to flesh out something meaningful to write. Suddenly tweets such as, "bag-gasm!" + link suffice.
It's become really, really hard for me to macro blog anymore. And it's pretty evident by the fact that I'm not really doing it. Barely here, or on Kiss Me Stace, not at all at Bag Dream, etc.
One example is for this blog, I want to write about this really gorgeous laptop case. And all I can think of writing is "elegant". God, sometimes I can't even fill out the 140 chars, and it's horrible.
Someone needs to do some research on whether (and if so, how much) regular blog posts have lessened since Twitter rose to such fame. But it can't be I, because I'm not only now a Twit, but Twitterpated by a boy. Double whammy on me, and it's really not productive!
Just watch out for when monetizing Twitter.com becomes easier and more direct. Yowch.
Ella M.
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