Although blogging used to be a hobby, I can’t really call it a hobby anymore because I hardly blog. Who’s to blame? Twitter!

Ever since I’ve started tweeting (@islandchic) I just can’t bring myself to blog anymore. Here’s why.

  • Brevity – tweets are shorter (limited to 142 characters) and therefore it takes less effort to tweet than to blog
  • Tweeting is instant, you could tweet something almost as you are thinking it! Blogging takes some amount of thinking if not careful planning.
  • Interaction – Like amateurgourmet says a twitter stream is like a chatroom while a blog is like a magazine.
  • Up to date – On twitter anything that’s older than a few hours is old news. Whatever is streaming at the time is mostly the most up to date stuff that’s happening around the world
  • Diversity – Not that blogging doesn’t involve diversity, but you gotta love Twitter for the job it does in shrinking the world into a tiny little ball! Here’s an example from my twitter stream: @infoholic tweets “The new world is fun. An Australian guy tells a Maldivian girl from China that an American guy is in Dubai & suggests they meet”.
  • Retweeting – Sharing what interesting news or information you see on twitter happens with one click!
  • Visibility – you gotta love twitpics. You are now able to share with the world what you are seeing/ doing almost instantly

These are only some of the reasons why I prefer tweeting to blogging. But my opinion is very much biased on the basis that I am just plain lazy! Basically blogging takes more effort and I’m making excuses for the fact that my blog has been idle for weeks!

On the other hand, there’s a down side to twitter. Starting from spammers, sex-bots who keep following you, to people practically selling themselves, it’s all pretty annoying. Let’s leave that conversation for another time.

To be fair, let’s just sat Twitter and blogging are pretty much complement eachother. As you can see, I’m blogging about tweeting and tweeting about blogging!

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