Comments Dead, Twitter Holds the Smoking Gun

It seems that a lot fewer people are making comments on blogs, as they can directly speak to the world through Twitter. Blog posts take a lot more work than Twitter, as the expectations as to length of post on a blog are at least a paragraph or two, if not a page of copy. So Twitter is easier, and tweets are not associated with someone else’s “brand”, someone who  is trying to build influence through lots of posts and comments. It is part of the switch from “me” to “we”.

Along comes Echo, an application that collects Twitter and Facebook comments, and puts them back into your blog. Will this revive blogs? Maybe, but it will also change them as the comments are not necessarily just about a blog post, but are the stirrings of collective intelligence. The decentralization of (big) egos continues… (GW)

Comments Dead, Twitter Holds the Smoking Gun | Read Write Web | Dana Oshir| 12 July 2009

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