15 Responses

1. TDH

   July 4th, 2007 at 8:51 am

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   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!

2. David Peralty

   July 4th, 2007 at 8:59 am

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   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.

3. nate

   July 4th, 2007 at 8:59 am

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   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.

4. Mike Sigers

   July 4th, 2007 at 9:09 am

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   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.

5. AhmedF

   July 4th, 2007 at 9:57 am

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   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

6. Aaron B. Hockley

   July 4th, 2007 at 10:13 am

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   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.

7. digitalramble

   July 4th, 2007 at 11:51 am

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   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.

8. deep.ed

   July 4th, 2007 at 2:42 pm

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   You all have missed the Bizweek post of it? http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2007/tc20070604_254236.htm

9. jangelo

   July 9th, 2007 at 7:31 am

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   I tried this for about a week and I got the same feedback. I realized later on that I hated it myself.

10. William Profet from OneJobTwoSalaries.com

    July 11th, 2007 at 3:19 am

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    I agree. It is a bad practice to show these stupid feeds and merge them with the normal blog feed posts.

11. inspirationbit

    July 12th, 2007 at 12:00 pm

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    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.

12. Scoop: Twittering, Daily Tweets and Blogging do not mix : The Blog Columnist

    July 18th, 2007 at 7:37 am

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    [...] David Peralty from Blogging Pro writes exactly as I feel in a short post about that damn Twitter and those daily tweets. 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. [...]

13. deep|edition » Saker som är kvar

    September 5th, 2007 at 12:42 pm

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    [...] grejer om bloggande och bloggkultur: The Twitterization of Blogs och en remark från Blogging Pro: Daily Tweets: Not Good Blogging Twitter Has “Ruined” My Life Wither Blogging? Not Yet, But Perhaps Soon Is deleting [...]

14. Othon

    September 22nd, 2007 at 2:46 am

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    Sorry

15. Athanasios

    November 26th, 2007 at 11:45 pm

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    Nice