Will Twitter Replace Blogging?

Personally, I find it silly to even write this Title, but some are contemplating it. I can’t see Twitter becoming so mainstream that it replaces blogging to a significant degree.

Don’t get me wrong, I like the idea and think that it’s got some very valuable applications. It was obviously the talk of the SXSW interactive conference. I think I saw more blog posts discussing it than have any technology in recent memory.

Steve Rubel writes a post in which he explains, that people such as Nick Wilson
are seeing it as a replacement for the myriad of blogs to which they subscribe.

Personally, I don’t see it. I struggle enough to keep up with all the blogs that I attempt to read on a daily basis in addition to writing my own posts AND completing a full day of work. (Some might argue that this is the exact reason for a service like Twitter, but I don’t see it that way).

So What? While I see Twitter as a very valuable tool in social circles, especially when the using Twitter phone alerts at conferences where people are trying to keep up on each other’s whereabouts, events and gossip, I don’t see it as a viable day to day replacement for the blog.

I think Rubel’s assertion that he’ll use it to “microblog” throughout the day, while he continues writing via Micro Persuasion, is an interesting one. I’ll be interested to see if he persists in maintaining the two channels of communication with his audience. He might very well be onto something…then again, maybe not so much. We shall see.

Tags: Twitter, SXSW, Blogging, Social Networking, Mobile

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