Scott Karp makes a fairly strong argument that more people should be signing on with Twitter, the social networking tool that all the cool kids are using. He writes:
I’m definitely using Twitter for Publishing 2.0-type observations that are too short for a blog post. I’ve never used Del.icio.us for link blogging because I’ve always preferred to create fully fleshed out blog posts that tie together different items I might bookmark. But Twitter is proving to be a great outlet for these short items of interest. And the great thing about Twitter vs. Del.icio.us is that Twitter sometimes talks back.
On the surface that’s a persuasive argument: to really be immersed in the conversations and reporting on the topics that are of interest to me — basically anything to do with media and journalism — I need to be where the conversations are taking place.
But I’m still not signing up. For now, I’m trusting that the meaningful, important and interesting conversations that may happen on Twitter, are going to show up, eventually, in the 300 or so blogs or news sites I already read. Twitter may capture some of the conversation, but it can’t contain the stuff that is truly interesting and valuable.
TAGS: TWITTER, INFORMATION, THE WEB
