R.I.P: Twitter is dying, long live …

… blogging.

Lets get this straight …

Twitter will die long before blogging does, the fact it’s treated like a “popularity” contest with the auto-follow bots, crap follow trains (where you can “gain” 400, 500 or whatever number it is), lame competitions, and other sly abuses makes it worth less now for the user.

I am continually blocking some porn spammer or other spammy crap, I look at their twitter and they have one “tweet” and they follow 500 people, and have no followers, or they follow none and have 500 odd followers, not hard to see what crap they use!

I would rather have 100 followers with reach than 2000 with none, it’s not all a numbers game you know, I don’t really get better results traffic wise now I have more than 2000 followers then I did when I had 1000, there could be many reasons for it, but the more followers you have only means that, you have more followers. Not all followers are equal, just as not all traffic is equal.

People are vainly trying to get the twittering celebrities attention in order to get some response, saying that it will “make their day plus get me more followers”

I don’t give a flying shit about the fact some like A Kuchter has 2 million, and if he tweets to you you will gain tons of followers, who cares?

Meaningless …

The other thing is twitter is 100% usable without going to twitter, how do twitter monetise their “webspace” when everyone is using something else to post to it?
Ads on the main twitter “home” page would be useless in that respect, plus who would really take notice of them?

Much like any social site, if you get banned and your account is deleted, that’s it, you lose!
You have lost whatever you post to them, much like a few years ago with forums and people losing great content because they get banned.

Blogs are ours, I own this, noone can “ban me” from writing here, or delete this except me, or my host, and even then it’s possible to back up a copy of it all so you don’t lose it.

I am surprised at seeing someone say they get 90% of their business from twitter, they say that it’s usually new orders, ie not much repeat orders, they even say it would be devastating to get banned from there, wtf are you doing relying on twitter?

It’s good you get the work from there, if you do, not so good that you have to be there to get it and if you lose it you lose nearly all you incoming work.
If you have a blog you have a central for them to come to you.

Twitter will not outlast blogging!

Do you agree?