I’ve been meaning to do this for awhile, but it’s finally done.
For the last several months (okay, almost a year), I’ve been reposting my Twitter updates to my blog. I did this both because my “blogging” has largely moved to Twitter *and* because while my Web 2.0-y friends get Twitter, my friends and family may or may not – and this blog is a personal blog, after all.
But, the problem was that Twitter posts going up meant that I didn’t feel a motivation to try and blog much.
So what I’ve done is move my Twitter stuff to the sidebar, provided a link to my Twitter page, and a link to the feed for my Twitter updates. If you want to read them, feel free. If you don’t, you no longer have to.
This work as a compromise for everyone?
Now if only I could figure out a way to post my Tweets like once a week to the blog, as a real compromise… Any ideas?
April 9th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
I’ve been publishing daily digests & I felt the same lack of motivation. The thing is that every time I think about stopping it, someone emails me saying that they like what I’m doing.
Like you said, I’d love to publish them maybe once or twice a week, but I don’t know of any automated way to do that just yet.
April 9th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Wonder if anyone feels like modding TwitterTools to allow for a weekly digest or something (every X number of days)? That’d be a rocking compromise for me …
April 10th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
[...] about email-overload but tweet happily throughout the day to thousands of “followers”. Jeremy Wright too has whipped the twittering hierglyphics off his blog. At last sense has returned to the [...]
April 12th, 2008 at 5:14 am
Wonder if anyone feels like modding TwitterTools to allow for a weekly digest or something (every X number of days)? That’d be a rocking compromise for me …
April 12th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Its not working – you’re not blogging – bring back the tweets.
April 30th, 2008 at 2:52 am
Removing your daily Tweets from your blog is a very good idea because this will save you a lot of time and by this you will write more quality posts.
June 9th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
[...] Since Twitter is addictive, lots of bloggers have decided to start importing Twitter content into their blogs. It’s nothing new, with several plugins available, the most popular one might be Alex King’s Twitter Tools, but I don’t know for sure. Either way, it’s a sure way to make your blog totally uninteresting, ugly, and boring. Think about it, who wants to read your tweets in a bullet list, hours after they happened? Chances are, most people don’t want to read them at all, especially when you’re offering a discussion with some friends, interesting only to those involved, but nevertheless cluttering your blog in a most hideous manner. Don’t take that last link to seriously by the way, Jeremy came to his senses… [...]