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Twitter: The Blog Killer

I’m not sure whether this is just because I’m busy with exams, but I’ve noticed that I’ve been blogging a lot less. However, it may also be down to the fact I’ve started Twittering as well.

At first, I decided to start using it as a way to "blog" something that doesn’t really need a full-blown post created for it. But it seems I’ve become hooked on it, and now I’m updating my status every few hours on average. It’s actually quite helpful, as I can say a quick thing about what I’m doing: "going on XBL", "about to do exam", "gaming all night" - or even post a quick link to something good. Well, actually I don’t think I’ve done that as much…

However, it seems that by posting so many small "snippets", there’s less of a reason to write a main post. And I’m not sure whether that’s a good thing or not. Sure having small side posts is good, but not at the expense of your main posts. It’s kind of like when a forum admin decides to install a shoutbox - all of a sudden half of the things that would be put in posts are put in the shoutbox. Not really beneficial…

It’ll probably be a little bit longer before I well and truly see whether using Twitter is killing my main blog, but for now I think a little less answering "What are you up to?", and more telling it the way I want to