Apr 2, 06:43 pm: Twitter helps with conversation

When I was thinking about Week 4 in my little 52 week series, I started thinking about what tool people should use to start the process of publishing on the web. And so I turned to twitter to ask.

Beth Kanter took the question further in her post, Marnie Webb’s Chicken or Egg Question: Twitter or Blogging?. She writes sums up the responses and has some great comments.

In writing up my own comments, I came to one of the reasons I feel that publishing starts with Twitter. It’s not about publishing. It’s about the conversation.

Blogging has lost some of that. I think that people are taking it increasingly more serious and the tools encourage that as they become more sophisticated. Twitter can’t help but be about conversation.

I think that starting there helps to encourage a habit of conversation and questioning, a sort of pose, that can be brought into the blog that helps to genuinely engage the people you are talking with.

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