12/03/2009
Et tu, Twitter? – Will New Social Media Render Blogging Obsolete?
With the amount of publicity in old guard mainstream media (late night talk shows, old line newspapers), you’d think that Twitter was the best thing since sliced bread, which leaves some wondering if the death knell has been sounded for bloggers.
Take a look at the signs of the impending apocalypse, once proud A-Lister bloggerati have taken a hiatus, stopped blogging, or are pummelled over the twitterstream into irrelevance. Is blogging, once the circa 2006 golden boy of mainstream media, now it’s whipping boy?
More importantly, is anyone going to read more than the 140 character limit imposed by micro blogging platforms like Twitter?
Are we destined to become a SMS/text nation?
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