As a Twitter user, I really hate it when people start using Twitter to notify about their blog posts. It's just noise. If I wanted to follow your blog's updates

As a Twitter user, I really hate it when people start using Twitter to notify about their blog posts. It's just noise. If I wanted to follow your blog's updates, I would subscribe to the RSS feed. That said, I do agree that makes it easier to follow a blog, if you can't be bothered to figure out how to use RSS. However, if you can bother to figure out Twitter, I don't see why figuring out Google Reader would be much different. In-band signalling is good for somethings, like time-dependent events. (ie: call waiting) If you have too many in-band signals though, you start to lose track of the information you're trying to follow.