Does Twitter Reduce Your Blogging Efficiency?
Posted by: dragonblogger // Category: Twitter, bloggingI had myself asking this very question repeatedly because as I spend more time engaging my followers on twitter and keeping up social communication on nights, weekends and during my spare time I realize that I am losing time to write blog posts and promote my blog via other SEO methods. Twitter is only effective if you engage your followers and friends, without having two way conversations your tweets are likely to be unnoticed and things you promote will be mostly disregarded. Unless of course you are a twitterlebrity or real celebrity and have thousands of followers hanging on your every tweet.
I enjoy talking to people on twitter, my fellow bloggers for instance usually share interesting articles, tips or information about what they ran into in the blogosphere which I enjoy learning about. I also enjoy talking with my poetry fans, or other Residents of Arizona about anything local or in the news. Realistically as I have reached over 3,000 followers it is becoming harder and harder to catch all tweets of interest in my follower stream, even with lists, filters and groups on Tweetdeck items that would have interested me still slip through the cracks.
How many others out there have found that they are spending more time engaging on twitter and as a result have less time to write blog articles and content? Or am I the only one juggling this issue?
-Dragon Blogger
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December 28th, 2009 at 7:22 am
Yes, it did. I’m active mostly in Plurk, second in Facebook, and third in Twitter. To me these sites allow me to keep in touch with other bloggers when I am not able to write a blog post. However, this is turning out not to be the case.
I tend to read more and write less. I learn but I have to strongly agree this had reduced my blogging efficiency.
With that, I’m trying to make a change. I won’t wait until the next day of New Year to change.
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December 28th, 2009 at 8:17 am
No issue from me. Why? I don’t tweet.
But will start to be active on it.
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December 28th, 2009 at 11:25 am
It does. It is so easy for twittering to become an obsession. All the time wasted can be easily used for creating better content.
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December 28th, 2009 at 11:26 am
It does. It is so easy for twittering to become an obsession. All the time wasted can be easily used for creating better content..
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December 28th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
It can impact on your time a lot, but the higher you climb the more effort it takes to stay there.
I am working harder than ever at the moment, but it’s a 100% worth it.
Ultimately I get my posts done for the site then socialize with my readers, it’s getting tough but if it was easy everyone would do it.
I have to say you are the most interactive blogger I have seen on Twitter though so kudos brother!
Well worth a re-tweet great post
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December 29th, 2009 at 8:18 am
I try to be, I do work from home so I can check my twitter often while on lunch break, after work and during nights. I am very plugged in.
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December 28th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Hey dragonblogger! If it wasn’t for Twitter I never would have stumbled upon your 1 word Twitter poems!
I’m a newbie blogger and haing launched my blog about 3-4weeks ago after months of exhaustive research, I am now in stage 2 of my blog discovery – How to find the time to stay active in all the varoius social media platforms.
I have a relatively small Twitter following, and a new blog with a relatively small number of posts. I also have an account on Sprouter, Linkedin and Facebook.
Even with a relatively small following on all platforms, I’m already finding it difficult (and stressful) trying to keep up with all of the great folks who have decided to vist my blog, or tweet my post or blogengage it, or tweet it, etc. etc. Whew! I mean really – please someone tell me HOW DO YOU KEEP UP WITH IT ALL and still find time, not only to POST new content but also to try and actually make a living out of this!
I mean, I love blogging but I”m not sure how folks like you with a number of blogs and a number of very active social networks can keep up with all the interaction that is necessary to build a community.
Any ideas? I see my buddy Infopreneur has added a comment here – James? You’re about a year ahead of me but basically you started out from scratch just like me…How do YOU keep up? I do’t want to have to quit bloggin because I”m not successful at it – just as I do’t want to quit blogging because I’m becoming good at it!!
HELP!?!?
-Don
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December 29th, 2009 at 8:17 am
I have been blogging for 15 months or so, and started my twitter account around the same time. It isn’t easy to keep up social networking interaction and write posts, I mostly do all of my blogging every other weeknight and some weekends. And I do interaction as often as possible on twitter (many of my promotional tweets are queued via hootsuite). It isn’t easy, but pace yourself so you don’t suffer burn out. This is why I think quality and keyword tagging optimization are better than quantity of blog posts. You don’t have to post an article 1x per day, I do on 3 blogs and I can barely maintain it. I write 21 articles per week (that is over 84 original articles per month on average). This is spread across 3 blogs, but if I did that much to one blog I would have 1 massive blog instead of 3.
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December 28th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
I see Twitter as a way to market content elsewhere. I think straining to interact through Twitter is a waste of time for me.
When I finish a good post (I think anyway) I send it out to Twitter and 17 other microblog networks. I do this through Ping.fm I know you probably have a milion ways to do this but ping.fm works for me so I stick with it.
For me Twitter is probably the most powerful for referral traffic. Stumbleupon is by far my largest referral source but it is not a microblog like Twitter.
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December 29th, 2009 at 5:37 am
I tried my luck to engage in Twitter but I found it ineffective. I guess I still don’t know how to use it. Focusing on my blog however has been very beneficial.
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December 30th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
I’ll get back to ya. I haven’t been on but plan to start in the new year, ans yes, this is a concern.
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January 10th, 2010 at 8:25 pm
I think I have something like 10,000+ tweets, I try to keep[ my tweeting time pretty efficient but there’s no doubt it cuts into blogging time. I do consider it an essential part of being a blogger and having an active community, so it’s worth it.
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February 3rd, 2010 at 11:19 am
I am very good at organizing my time, each day i write list of things i must do in sets of time, meaning i spend so much on blog (priority #1) and then twitter (checking posts, comments etc..) and then emails, and so on you get the picture. So no i do not think you are wrong or otherwise but twitter does not take away from my writing that is for sure….and I have a job in the outside world ahahhaha thanks.
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February 3rd, 2010 at 11:24 am
I do not feel twitter is taking away from my blog, i am a fanatic of keeping a list of things to do and separate each thing i do by making priorities, first blog #1 on my list then all other networking comes after..twitter, emails, posting comments and such, plus i have a job in the outside world…very organized little woman.thanks for post awesome.
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