Twittering can be addictive and devaluing for bloggers

Twitter has become a rage. Many bloggers have got into it so much that they’ve started to quit blogging. Some think that twittering eat up most of their time and make them less popular. I’m following like some 98 people and 75 are following me. Every day, there are more followers too.

And let me tell you, this thing is getting messy these days.
So there are 75 followers and 98 that you follow, all of them keep twittering every other second on Gtalk, you try to reply to one with the @somebody tag and nothing happens..You post your tweet…you edit it..tweet again…somebody replies..and that’s about it. What’s the return?

Social Media – did someone say? Ah! Cool. So..being social eh? Well…honestly my friend, it isn’t social. Readers…all of you who get replies for every single tweet on twitter, hands up !
…… None?

Okay, everyone who gets a client signed from twitter hands up…

None?

Hmm..everyone who has subscribers signing up for you through twitter….hands…up??

Ok forget it.

See the point I’m trying to make is that, twittering is essentially bad for bloggers. Really bad.
Here goes my reasons.

1. You are already running out of ideas to blog and with twittering, you end up throwing all of that in two lines.
2. And, no one is interested in your twitters, you don’t find a client in your followers.
3. You think it’s social media, but no one ever talks or take the effort to.
4. Everyone is busy shouting their personal stuff, what they had for breakfast, what they did while sleeping.
5. Blogging superstars lose their charm by offering too much of them up close and in real to the followers (exceptions available.)
6. You tell to the world that you have a serious problem with typos.
7. Whoever is following you either know you directly or through your blog, there are no new acquisitions.

Seriously my friend, I could think of more such reasons but this isn’t doing good at all.
Bloggers, stick back to serious blogging. Don’t shout out to the world what you had for breakfast or what you did while sleeping, you might want to keep it to your immediate circle of friends.
And don’t misunderstand that twitter will bring you new clients or new subscribers to your blog. Who ever is following you are either your readers or your friends.

Essentially, Twitter doesn’t give you anything in return , but only takes away from you – your time, your content and a good major part of your brain.

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