Social Media Not Quite Worthless

So over the weekend Leo Laporte noticed his Google Buzz feed wasn’t feeding into Twitter for almost the whole month, and no one noticed. He was shocked, but I’m not really surprised. My Twitter stream goes by pretty fast. I probably only read 50% of the tweets. I wish I could read them all, but that’s just not possible. If someone dropped off the face of the Earth, I would have a hard time to tell from my Twitter stream.

He came to the conclusion that if nobody missed him, why is he even there? He felt like he was wasting his time feeding content into Twitter, when he should have been feeding it to his blog, at least he would have something to show for it.

I agree with him on that. So many bloggers have quit blogging because of Twitter. A lot of blogs that I used to read almost daily, now are hardly ever updated. People spend all day Tweeting and at the end of the day have nothing to show for it. If they would put it on their blog, send all the TwitPics to their blog, after a while they would have a nice record of their life if nothing else.

Some people think RSS is dead. I live and die by RSS. If you blog something I will read it thanks to RSS. If you tweet it, there is probably only a 50% chance that I will read it.

Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t think Twitter is totally worthless. It’s great for short little comments. It’s great to communicate with while watching tv. It’s great for telling everybody what you had for breakfast. But don’t forget about you blog.

If I find something I want to share, I might tweet about it, but it’s for sure going on my blog first. Some people hate it when people tweet about blog updates. I do it, and I don’t care. My blog is mine. I own it. At the end of the day this is what’s important. I couldn’t really care less about Twitter. It’s fun, and I will continue to use it as long as it stays fun, but once Twitter goes the way of MySpace, you will still find me here.