A bag of chips is not a balanced meal; Tweet Dumps=Fail.
Recently a number of folks whose weblogs I read have stopped posting long form content and are instead they’re dumping their tweets on their pages.
What a disappointment. This is not an anti twitter screed, but a statement to those whose weblogs / pages used to be filled with contemplative ideas are now filled with the familiar short messy tweets messages that usually have no context or depth.
A weblog can be short hits / posts or can contain hours worth of content. Tweets are the antithesis of this – with the act of conversation substituting for a depth of conversation. Anything goes, unedited and without flow. Here’s a tweet about an academic paper, here’s a tweet about waffles.
I am reminded of the first time I read People magazine or USA Today, and I thought, OK, they covered it – but there’s not much here – lack of depth.
Will you sometimes see posts on my pages that are too slim? Sure, but every once in a while, you may see a collection of photographs or a longer form argument, a balanced meal vs. a bag of chips.
So to my friends out there that have transformed their weblogs into tweet dumps, please come back with big thick content, I miss the good stuff!
