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by hashemian 940 days ago
I don't think tweeting and blogging can be compared really. I would see tweeting as a form of "talking to a group of people". You often don't research, proofread, and rewrite yourself when talking. The UI to tweeting also boosts this (mostly mobile devices I assume, via a small text box).

While bloggin is for writing an essay. You may write the essay and just publish it, but in most cases you do some research and at least proofread it once. And again the blogging UI is optimized for this: you have an empty page, nothing other than your written content.

And they really complement each other: you talk to people to get ideas for your essays, and you write essays to share your ideas with people and use them as the base for your writing. I don't think you ever can replace tweeter (or similar services) with blogging.
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CM30 940 days ago
Yeah I agree with this. Tweeting is more akin to posting to a forum or mailing list than writing a blog entry. Heck, social media in general is basically the forum/messenger equivalent of the current era.

Could some people use a social media service like a blog? Sure, in the same way some people used internet forums as the equivalent of a blog or article posting site in the 90s and 00s. But that's not really their purpose, and they're not going to be replacements for most people.

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thomasahle 940 days ago
Some people write long form tweets or threads, and they can take hours to research/compose etc. Not as long as blogs, but still a decent amount of work. I personally prefer to follow people like that.
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hashemian 940 days ago
I agree, but I think they are more outlier than normal tweeter users.

I've been also trying to find these people and follow them on tweeter, but it's hard to find. Mostly either don't tweet much, or tweet a lot of noise!

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thomasahle 940 days ago
The people who tweet 25% gold and 75% noise are the hardest to deal with. Probably follows aren't worth it.

If you can't find a lot of good people to follow, it just means you end up wasting less time in Twitter. It's a win-win really.

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smegsicle 940 days ago
can't you just set a per-account retweet threshold for their posts to show up in your feed?
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thomasahle 940 days ago
How does that work?
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