Okay, after further consideration I think it’s best to avoid pushing a daily digest of my Twitter updates as content for the blog. Instead, I’ll just use the sidebar functionality to post the latest updates. I tend to agree with David Peralty who posted a rant about the practice of “Twitter blogging” on his website.
What you end up with as a reader are half a dozen or so one hundred and forty character messages, most of which have no meaning or relevance to you as a reader since they are responses or aimed at specific people.
It is really a shame to see so many blogs heading down this road, and that Twitter has captured their attention so much that they don’t continue to work on their real blogging efforts, a type of communication that can’t occur on a platform like Twitter.
My situation is somewhat the opposite, but just as detrimental to what I believe is the proper use of both Twitter and my blog. Since I was pushing a daily digest from Twitter into the content of my blog, I have tended to be less spontaneous and prolific in posting to Twitter by trying to make my Tweets somewhat more relevant to the blog. I’ve seen the error of my ways and hope that more follow. Thanks for setting me straight David.
Tags: Blogging, Twitter Updates
Just testing out the Twitter Tools WordPress plugin and trying to decide how I want to configure the settings. This looks like a really great plugin. I just want to make sure I don’t blast my followers with irrelevant crap. Oh wait … it’s Twitter so I guess maybe they should expect irrelevant crap from me.
The plugin offers some pretty nice settings like creating a blog post for each tweet, creating a daily digest of all tweets in a single blog post, and updating twitter with a link each time you create a blog post. I think I’ll probably refrain from having Twitter Tool create a blog entry for each Twitter update. I just don’t think I need blog entries declaring that I’m stuck in traffic, eating sushi, or having a latte. I probably will enable the daily digest though.
Tags: Blogging, plugins, Twitter Updates