Has Twitter Killed The Blog?

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Has Twitter Killed The Blog?

By SemanticWeb.com on May 28, 2009 12:01 PM

Frank Reed
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Frank Reed
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Andy Serwer is the managing editor over at Fortune magazine. Now, so you are aware I have a bias toward Fortune because I think that is just a good magazine. Simplistic? Yes, but I need it that way. In fact, that's what Andy is alluding to in his Captain's Blog post from May 20. He suggests that we communicate so much that maybe blogging is going to be replaced by Facebook and Twitter. I agree to a degree.

Serwer postulates that maybe blogging is too slow and clunky. After journalism was pronounced dead due to blogging now it may be time to pronounce blogging dead due to Twitter and Facebook and the new "140 character or less" culture.

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