Jim Haysom | This Is Your Life an internet professional in digital advertising

Has Twitter replaced quality blog posts?

It's almost midnight and I lie here in bed asking myself whether Twitter has replaced quality blog posts?

Being a casual tweeter, I often find it's easier to write a quick <140 character update than a more deeper, or meaningful blog post. I started off tweeting with a link to a blog post I'd written merely as a traffic driver to a more lengthier piece of text. But more recently that has faded, as well as the frequency of blog posting.

I'm a very busy man. Fact. And finding the time to ramble life's experiences can be consuming. Twitter has become more of a medium to promote a rant or piece of news, interesting or not, or share a piece of the web that's either made us laugh, smile or cry. But following a bunch of people I know, it's near impossible to keep up.

I'm going to make a more concerted effort to blog more, as surprisingly I get about 20 visits a day to my site. The iPod app from WordPress is great, using as we speak, so I'll be drafting posts on the commute from now on and uploading at home.

How anyone with more than 100 friends on Twitter copes or reads all their posts, is beyond me.

It's hard enough when you have only 1 friend, and it's Tom from MySpace!