Can TwitBlog and TwitWall replace blogs ? (+ Survey Results) [kwiqq]

Posted on | January 6, 2009 | View Comments

It all began with a survey on Twitter:

“Survey: Will Twitter API services like Twitblogs.com, Twitwall.com etc replace blogging software like wordpress, blogger in the future ?”

What is TwitWall / TwitBlogs ?

Twitter API services like Twitblogs, TwitWall etc sit in between your Blog and Twitter, allowing you to post a blog via Twitter. Twitblogs description of their service:

“..sometimes 140 characters is just not enough to say or show what you really want to say.If you want the best of both worlds then twitblogs is the perfect twitter companion for you. Just try it.”

Why conduct a survey ?

The aim was to understand the positioning of these services. A few months when I first heard about TwitWall I was about to replace my personal blog with TwitWall.com. At that point I found a plugin (Twitter Tools) for WordPress which can convert your tweets into blog posts and vice versa. Given that I’m not a designer and enjoy the diversity of WordPress themes I thought I’d stick to WP.

Advantages of TwitterWall / TwitterBlogs

• My top reason to use these services is lack of time. Marketers have limited resources, if they spend majority of their time twittering (which is increasingly happening now), when would they blog? This gets even more complicated when users/marketers maintain more than one blog. With these services they can keep their blogs active without spending significant time reblogging and ofcourse the process is super dynamic.
• Founder of TwitBlogs.com (rogerkondrat): as a blogger you remember getting your first 100 visitors was loads of work.I have seen our new users get that in a couple hrs…. i.e. access to high traffic
• Founder of TwitWall: (mecarluen‘s twitwall post) “…there are many people who like to share their thought with others but do not want to go through the laborious task of creating and managing a blog…”

What did people think about the service ?

• angryamoeba: They have a complementary role as personal aggregators. I see them as more of a threat to gReader or bloglines than to blogs .
• steveofmaine: Doubt it as they all assume you’re online while composing.
• hejog: no, those services were made for the sake of being made. I dont think people /want/ to blog via twitter. Endless integration ftl.
• jonmrich: I hope not. I’m not concise enough for 140 characters.
• Andrew_Taylor: Replacing blogs with Twitter services would be like replacing the cinema with YouTube. Also it would create a monopoly on blogs.
• pinkfloyd: I don’t think so. They both have different purposes for different audiences.
• sandeep123: i think it may not replace but can do for some extent coz blogs have more options and services than Twitter API but for people

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