There are a few posts about Twitter in the local blogosphere today . . . Nuke shared his insights. A local librarian had the most articulate thoughts on the subject.
Mind you . . . Kansas City blogs are a little slow to the debate given that this is a discussion that everybody else was having last year . . . Also, an October blurb in Wired Mag gave credence to pouty bloggers who haven't been able to attract an audience.
Honestly, for folks who just think the Internets is about making friends, going to bars with buddies and sharing all the goodness that is being white in Kansas City . . . Twitter is probably the best option.
Still, there is competition in everything and DarrenRules is undoubtedly the King of All Kansas City Twitter users.
Meanwhile, a great many people who lack the intellectual capacity or the will to think about media critically may not understand that it's all just personal publishing . . . But the way that Twitter and Facebook allow people to shut out the rest of the world may be better suited to Kansas City Bloggers with delicate sensibilities who act like old women despite a well-concocted and hard-nosed online persona (yes, I'm referring to you) . . . I follow tons of Kansas City people on Twitter and my presence there has been a fun little quick writing exercise . . . Despite the fact that it's a glorified chatroom.
I'm the King of Jack SHIT.
ReplyDeleteI protect my twitter account so I can bitch and whine about anything, work, friends, family whatever. I don't have to worry about someone misreading a tweet and getting pissed off.
I can control who reads my twitter page. So by linking to my twitter page. It just tells them that my tweets are protected and they have to request to "follow" me.
Twitter is faster, and much easier that writing a blog post that's why I like it.
And yes at times it is a glorified chatroom.
Agreed.
ReplyDeleteYeah? Well Twitter's so 2008. It's better at blip.fm. Tweets are only 140 characters, but Blips are 150 characters and include a song
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