Another blogging titan goes after Twitter
Jason Kottke, who was known for his short link blogging — often way fewer than 140 characters — long before Twitter ever existed, is perhaps understandably threatened by it. He isn’t the first popular blogger to go after the medium. Do I detect a kind of rift, a divide that is pitting the blogging dinosaurs against the A-list of the twitterverse?
The problem with all of the “we’re tracking the most popular links on Twitter” sites is that link sharing on Twitter depends on (in order of decreasing relevance):
1. the time it takes to read/view the link (shorter is way better)
2. if the subject of the link is Twitter or Facebook
3. the sense of outrage aroused in the reader (the more the better)
4. if the link was published by fucking Mashable
5. retweets by popular Twitter users who have many parrot followers (i.e. disciples)
6. how interesting the link is
Dear Simon
I did not even know that some of our blog posts (see website) could be called short link blogging — thanks for pointing that out to me.
As far as Twitter is concerned – I sometimes wonder about how helpful corporate tweeting is for my business
And regardless of what some might think who follow 27000 people – Twitter is not scalable if I want to stay in touch and talking to my customer in person seems to far more effective than tweeting.
Thanks for point me to an interesting subject. Urs
I guess you could say that if you want to willfully misrepresent what I said. I am not against Twitter or threatened by Twitter or whatever. Popular link tracking services for blogs aren’t any better…just the criteria are slightly different.