Dec
23
Update on TwitBlogs
Posted (Van Santos) in Blogging Tools on December-23-2008

Last week I wrote about a new service called Twitblogs – essentially a service for Microbloggers that allows posts longer than Twitters 140 character limit.

I had two issue with the service – 1) Why not simply blog, 2) The involvement a person who has what I would consider a questionable background.  

Roger, a member of the Twitblog team contacted me regarding my second point. Sam Sethi, the individual who I was concerned about, has no direct involvement in the technical aspects of the operation.  Furthemore, there is absolutely no password storage of any kind.

While I not sure I see the point of the service – if you want to write more than 140 characters, why don’t you simply blog – I do now feel better about giving TwitBlogs a try.  

I wanted to say thank you to Roger for reaching out to me to address my concerns.

Update: Blogherald wonders some of the same things I did as well…
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Dec
15
Anyone see TwitBlogs?
Posted (Van Santos) in Technology on December-15-2008
While reading my feeds today I saw an interesting little article on a new service called “TwitBlogs”  It’s a new service, much like Tumblr, that allows individuals to create posts larger than Twitters 140 character limit. While it an interesting idea, what I don’t understand is this: why not simply blog?  

Really, why not?

Not everything I Tweet becomes a blog post, and if there is something I decided to blog about I notify Twitter with the information (which posts a link to the blog URL).  Essentially, if I understand the service correctly, it will do the same exact thing.  If that is the case, simply remove the extra step and just integrate your blog into Twitter?

Another point of interest.  TwitBlogs was started by former TechCrunch UK Editor, and BlogNation founder, Sam Sethi.  If you don’t know much about Sam and his history, I suggest you look here, here and here.

Having never met the guy, this history makes me question how long this service will be around and what is happening to any information entered into the system.    This gives me two reasons not to use the service… Not seeing the point in it to begin with and someone with a serious reputation problem.
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