One of the reasons why my earlier blog failed – probably the most common one – is the threshold for posting to a blog is quite high. It means opening Scribefire, doing some copying and pasting, writing something, categorising it, adding tags and publishing it. The joy of Twitter, I have found in the last three or four weeks, is that the posting threshold is so low. Firefox addons, like the one for tr.im url shortening, make it easy to quickly tweet something out into cyberspace in under a minute. Interestingly, the more I’ve used Twitter, the more I’ve realised the need to be blogging again. Sometimes 140 characters aren’t enough, and there are times when I don’t want to tweet something without comment.
Well, it remains to be seen how motivated I’ll be to work the two in tandem in three or four weeks, after being back at work for a while and with all sorts of things competing for my time. But it does seem to me at the moment that the two approaches make a good combination. And maybe Twitter followers are what’s needed to keep the ongoing motivation.
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