Bob Caswell

Bob,

I think you've hit something here. Soon after I started using Twitter a couple years ago, I found that the short discussions I'd have on Twitter would make their way to a full blog post - once or twice, as in this one, using the text of the Tweets to make up the post, but frequently as a springboard to a more fully fleshed out argument. One great benefit to this method is that the Twitter conversation helps you to figure out what will resonate with people before devoting an entire afternoon to writing up something great that no one will ever read. And it gives you just enough healthy contradictory evidence to make your own post that much stronger.

FWIW, related to our conversation below, I started using the Selective Twitter Updates app to send specific Tweets to my Facebook status update by appending a hash tag to the end. It's a nice little way to keep the automation, but maintain a bit of segmentation and control over the broadcast.

Interesting... Where do I get a copy of that app and what platform(s) (phone/Win/Mac) is it written for?

Sorry I wasn't more specific. The Selective Twitter Updates is actually a Facebook app. Basically, if you add #fb to the end of a Tweet, it changes your FB status, otherwise, it's just Twitter as usual.

Nice! Just set myself up with selective twitter. At first, I turned on Facebook Twitter updates, but I like the idea of controlling it more so I don't confuse FB with retweets, etc.

What the? Just noticed Disqus comments now have Twitter integrated?! Cool, tweeting from a comment on my blog.

Haha. Yeah, I think this is totally going to keep showing up. Blogs are now partly like the newsweekly to social media's daily newspaper. It's where you have a chance to think more deeply and consolidate the back-and-forths into a coherent whole.

Yeah, it's also getting to the point where blogs almost feel old school. But wow, if that's the case, that was fast! And I wonder what comes after Twitter in the next five years?