Daily Tweets: Not Good Blogging
by David Peralty on July 4th, 2007 
15 Comments
I have a little bone to pick with a variety of people. It seems their blogs have been converted into nothing more than a rolling list of their daily “twitters” from Twitter.com.
Some of the bloggers might not have written articles every day, but when they did write on their blog, they were some great posts, and now I find myself seeing half conversations and silly, short messages about people’s cats or getting the mail. I am really not impressed by this trend, and wish that this wasn’t becoming a replacement for blogging for some people.
I also wish that someone would develop a plugin that would stop these daily tweets from showing up in the RSS feed, as I don’t want to see them. I only want the real articles that site owners have put time into.
Is that so much to ask?
I totally agree with you, David! If I want short snippets I go to the Twitter page, when I want something more I’ll read the blog. The least the Twitter freaks could do is to remove the tweets from the main RSS feed and also push it out in the sidebar or something.
It’s a crappy way to update your blog, and a sure method to get me to unsubscribe from your feed. I suggest you do the same, David. The revolution is here!
With your celebrity power… and mine (yeah right) we can start the movement against Twitter blog posts :)
Glad to hear someone agrees with me. It is sad how common it has become. Hopefully, some awareness that people don’t like it will shift the good bloggers away from doing it.
No, that’s not too much to ask. Twittering in place of blogging makes for one of those “here’s what I ate for lunch” blogs, which nobody reads.
I hate tweets and teitterings and am unsubscribing from any blog that subjects me to this awful mess.
Convenience ( read as laziness ) is an ugly thang.
Concurred.
There was one blog I read that the author had put his Twitters into the main RSS feed. A post asking if he should continue with that met such a resounding ‘no’ that … well … he got the idea :)
Agreed… it’s annoying. Tell folks it’s annoying. If their twitter postings are really overshadowing the “real” content, enough folks unsubscribing should get their attention.
Even worse is when (as seems to happen quite often) something goes wrong with the posting, and the damned tweet is repeated several times. I hate it. Should go on the sidebar IF it MUST appear at all in the blog. Best is just a link to the twitter place.
Twits.
You all have missed the Bizweek post of it? http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2007/tc20070604_254236.htm
I tried this for about a week and I got the same feedback. I realized later on that I hated it myself. :)
I agree. It is a bad practice to show these stupid feeds and merge them with the normal blog feed posts.
I can only add one thing – I’m so glad that none of my favourite blogs are replacing their content with some useless Twittering and not messing up their feeds.
Sorry :(
Nice