Blog it OR Tweet it :: Warrior Survey Question

Hey all...

I was just putting ducks in a row, here and came across a little dilemma. We're all pretty much going down (somewhat of) the same path to riches; and by coincidence this means doing such things as putting what we're currently doing "out there"... you know, social media... blogging, tweeting, fanning, facebooking, myspacing... blah blah...

Lotta work

(For me) Blogging has always been a pain in the butt. I've used all kinna automation and posting tools to lessen the 'burden' of frequent posting... I even developed a pretty extensive automated blog posting application that was(is) pretty heavy duty with where it gets information to post and how it posts it; (won't get into that -- not the premise, here -- and its not a plug 'cause its no longer available). Yet, even still... in order to stay away from the spammy type "reposting" label; original content is key.

Right?

Now, with all the other stuff we need to do...
- article writing
- video production
- content creation
- product creation
- graphic creation
- support systems
- ecommerce systems
- systems systems systems

.. I've always looked for a way to lessen the load... and it dawned on me... why Blog when I can just Tweet??

I mean, granted.. I've been looking for a legit reason to even open a Twitter account, (I only have one now and its like... pfft, yeah I'll get to it). The whole "this method is the best way to make $umgamillion bucks through Twitter" thing (to me has always been) just more work. I'm tryin' to "get up" from this dang computer; not sit here longer. Ya know?!

Anyway.. so I started weighing the two against each other; (even now as I'm typing this out).

Originally, blogging in the IM arena was for information dissemination, yeah? At least from my perspective, anyway. It caught on 'cause SEs seemed to like the whole "continuous content updating engine" built into blogging. Everybody started jumping all over them 'cause they were easy to pop up; maintain and the SEs loved 'em. Yeah, I get that and can't dispute it; as it still stands true.

BUT.. and here's where the ... 'hmm.. is it time to shift' dilemma comes in..

In all actuality, the SEs love blogs because the content is easy for their robots to digest. Blog content is basically broken down into (and I'm using this term loosely) machine language; meaning, its a database being updated on a regular basis. The blog engine retrieves this info from the DB and spits it out... kinna the best of both worlds... humans can consume it easily and SEbots can consume it easily. Since SEs can consume it easier than basic static content... its easier for them to index it and spit it back out.

I mean, you can just as easily get (somewhat of) the same type of effect with an RSS feed of your static content, really. Esp. if you're updating on a reg. Just not as potent due to the whole database indexing thing; which I don't wanna get into but its basically all about date and time and (again) making it easier for the SEs (who are also databases) to consume and regurgitate the content in question.

I know... verbose.. but all this comes into play here.. thanks for hangin' with me

OK.. so in comes Twitter. Doing a basic Google Search with the site: operator, (last I looked), returns over 128mil pages. This means Google is indexing Twitter pages. Simple enough.

Google's also giving Twitter a PR of 9. Alexa has it ranked at #13. Compete rank is 38 and is reported as getting referral links from Facebook and MySpace. hmmm

So, with Twitter... I get 140 characters; ok.. say 100 to factor in an URL; to relay a quick message about what I'm doing and/or up to with a link that will automatically get indexed; (which also means followed by the bots); from a PR9 site to my whatever page.. and I can do this from "anywhere" in the world and even from my mobile device? hmmm

So, all of the above factored into the equation.. why would I blog over tweeting?

What say you?

PLP,
tecHead