On the day that Bigmouthmedia launch their inaugural B.A.B.E. award (with a jolly decent £1,000 prize!) I’ve been thinking if twitter has taken over from blogging?
Now, whilst I detest myspace, don’t use facebook because of all those daft games it seems to have, I think twitter (my profile – feel free to follow me) is a really simple, effective marketing tool. I follow people who I think offer some useful tweets and search.twitter.com (via RSS feeds) is just great for finding content for my emerging hyperlocal sites.
There could be valid reasons why affiliates/seo’ers/domainers aren’t blogging so much:
- nothing much to say recently
- no point in repeating what many others are saying
- too busy working on other projects/revenue generation in this tougher economic climate
- apathy
- 140 character tweets force you to be concise ..and therefore it’s quicker
I follow a few affiliates, not all by any means as you can only read so much. Now I’ve not done any research at all but my gut feel is that affiliate blog posting is slowly playing second fiddle to tweeting.
It could just be the people that I like to read and more generally blogging is still going strong – what do you think?