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Why do people insist on using that medium for blogging? It would be better to tweet, "Guys, I updated my blog with a story about this thing (link)".

by imglorp 11y ago

bubblesorting 11y ago
Nope, /much/ better to light up my phone 30 times. ;)
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truebosko 11y ago
Quick and easy articles. Your effort is compiling the tweets and inserting a lead.
- tempodox 11y ago
  Yep, zero effort. And, accordingly, zero reward.
polarix 11y ago
30 tweets makes 30 times the claim on attention of your followers, regardless of content. A single tweet is 30 times less likely to be read. This is a structural inefficiency of the twitter platform.
cmdrfred 11y ago
I had no idea this was a trend. How could anyone ever think this is a good idea? You'd think the editors at wired would be able to copy and paste, surely that's easier than embedding 45 tweets.
- tempodox 11y ago
  While this is technically true, you also need to adhere to Twitter's TOS if you're going to use their product.
  - Robin_Message 11y ago
    Or Wired could do some actual journalism and, I don't know, interview the original poster plus ask her ex-boss and Google for comments plus try and track down the mysterious other man?
  - cmdrfred 11y ago
    Journalists don't need to obey a TOS (at least in the US where it is specifically protected in the constitution "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;"), watch the news sometime they don't get consent forms for all the people walking by in man on the streets segments. (Or a better example where news outlets published details from the snowden leaks) I guess if all you want to do is post a bunch of tweets and not write any context or additional information about it this is the way to do it, but if you actually want to be a journalist TOS means nothing.

Why do people insist on using that medium for blogging? It would be better to tweet, "Guys, I updated my blog with a story about this thing (link)".

by imglorp 11y ago

Why do people insist on using that medium for blogging? It would be better to tweet, "Guys, I updated my blog with a story about this thing (link)".

bubblesorting 11y ago

Nope, /much/ better to light up my phone 30 times. ;)

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truebosko 11y ago

Quick and easy articles. Your effort is compiling the tweets and inserting a lead.

tempodox 11y ago
Yep, zero effort. And, accordingly, zero reward.

polarix 11y ago

30 tweets makes 30 times the claim on attention of your followers, regardless of content. A single tweet is 30 times less likely to be read. This is a structural inefficiency of the twitter platform.

cmdrfred 11y ago

I had no idea this was a trend. How could anyone ever think this is a good idea? You'd think the editors at wired would be able to copy and paste, surely that's easier than embedding 45 tweets.

tempodox 11y ago
While this is technically true, you also need to adhere to Twitter's TOS if you're going to use their product.
- Robin_Message 11y ago
  Or Wired could do some actual journalism and, I don't know, interview the original poster plus ask her ex-boss and Google for comments plus try and track down the mysterious other man?
- cmdrfred 11y ago
  Journalists don't need to obey a TOS (at least in the US where it is specifically protected in the constitution "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;"), watch the news sometime they don't get consent forms for all the people walking by in man on the streets segments. (Or a better example where news outlets published details from the snowden leaks) I guess if all you want to do is post a bunch of tweets and not write any context or additional information about it this is the way to do it, but if you actually want to be a journalist TOS means nothing.