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.