Andrew Pollock makes the observation that a microblogging (twitter or whatever) stream added to a regular blog doesn’t add much for the reader… I’ve been debating this myself ever since I installed the WordPress Plugin that does twitter integration.
One motivation was “I don’t like everything being tied up in some proprietary system” and wanting a copy of my data somewhere. On the other hand, what I write into twitter isn’t exactly that-scottish-play and loosing it all would probably be a net gain for humanity.
So… do I turn off the Twitter plugin? I’m erring on the side of “yes, turn it off”. Thoughts?
Well, its your blog… Keep it, if it serves as a backup.
I have been having the same thoughts. I guess I’d throw syndication into the mix. Since I am just tracking my movements and don’t overly care about whether others read or not I am going to keep mine.
Hi Stuart,
What I ended up doing is pulling my twitter stream (and my del.icio.us links, and my flickr stream) into sidebars in my blog, but kept them out of my main atom feed. Oh, and check out http://identi.ca instead of twitter – its open source!