Thinking Of Turning Off Automatic Twitter Updates

Author: J. Angelo Racoma Category: Blogs and blogging, Social Media Tags: blogging, blogs, Social Media, Updates, Web 2.0 Views: 13368

Monday
Apr 23, 2007

My readers must think I’m a lazy blogger. Most of the time, you would see Twitter updates filling the front page of the J Spot. It’s because of the twitter tools plugin I’ve installed. It allows me to automatically publish tweets anywhere on the site (currently at the bottom bar, for instance), and publish daily summaries of tweets.

But the lazy blogger I am, I usually just get to update the site with _real_ blog posts every other day or so. The rest of the time, it’s just the twitter updates. This made me think. If I keep the twitter updates, I benefit from the added keywords I post via Twitter. The updates also make for substitutes to blog posts, since I wrote them, anyway, and a collection of tweets are actually micro-blog entries.

But then again, I’m in doubt whether the tweets I post make for good substitutes to actual blog posts.

So an alternative I’m thinking of now is reviving my personal blog, the J Spotter (which has gone offline for some reason) just for the purpose of hosting my daily twitter summaries. I would then retain the current updates on the footer of this blog.

What do you think?

J. Angelo Racoma is a technology and automotive journalist and blogger. See more of his work at e27.sg, Android Authority and Tech Wire Asia. Follow him via Twitter at @jangelo.

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AhmedF

April 23rd, 2007 at 4:26 am

Please do – I find Twitter insanely annoying. Set it up as another feed or something

Do I care about your opinion? Yes
Do I care about what you are doing at 4:50 pm? No (and even when I was your boss )

jhay

April 23rd, 2007 at 6:42 am

I tried that feature yesterday, and since I’m not that active in using Tweeter, the one pilot post really annoyed me. So I disabled that feature and stuck to the sidebar updates instead.

taorist

April 23rd, 2007 at 7:33 am

I miss the old J Spot where I can read your posts regarding new tech or opinions on the latest issues. I would suggest that you put up another blog for the Twitter posts.