{"id":10365,"date":"2009-09-02T07:53:27","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T15:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=10365"},"modified":"2009-09-02T07:53:27","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T15:53:27","slug":"19-reasons-to-blog-and-not-just-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=10365","title":{"rendered":"19 Reasons To Blog And Not Just Tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/thefuturebuzz.com\/2009\/05\/10\/reasons-you-should-blog-and-not-just-tweet\/\">Adam Singer writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Twitter is popular because it is easy.&nbsp; It is easy to setup, easy to copy-paste links into, and easy to write 140 character bits.&nbsp; But, having your own blog remains the strongest platform if you&rsquo;re serious about sharing ideas and having a continued dialog with the world.&nbsp; Blogging is the antithesis of easy, however it is far more rewarding.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m not saying Twitter isn&rsquo;t a useful and interesting service, because it certainly is.&nbsp; But it does not negate the real opportunity that is actually made <em>more<\/em> useful by the popularity of microblogging:&nbsp; having your own blog.<\/p>\n<p>Are you just using Twitter but not blogging?&nbsp; You&rsquo;re missing out.&nbsp; Here&rsquo;s why you should make a blog your home base and consider Twitter an <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/www.problogger.net');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.problogger.net\/archives\/2008\/10\/06\/social-media-home-bases-and-outposts\/\">outpost<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>1.&nbsp; Blogging demonstrates true commitment and passion to your industry that you really can&rsquo;t fake long-term.&nbsp; Most won&rsquo;t be able to sustain it over long periods of time with frequency, but those who do so are rewarded in spades and <a href=\"http:\/\/thefuturebuzz.com\/2008\/10\/31\/how-to-stand-out-in-a-world-of-infinite-choice\/\">stand out<\/a> from the crowd.<a href=\"http:\/\/thefuturebuzz.com\/2008\/10\/31\/how-to-stand-out-in-a-world-of-infinite-choice\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2.&nbsp; Old articles are valuable and still read years later, given infinite life by the engines.&nbsp; Old Tweets live in archive purgatory where a majority will never be seen again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Singer writes: Twitter is popular because it is easy.&nbsp; It is easy to setup, easy to copy-paste links into, and easy to write 140 character bits.&nbsp; But, having your own blog remains the strongest platform if you&rsquo;re serious about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=10365\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[18735,18734,18732,626,18736,18733],"class_list":["post-10365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","tag-antithesis","tag-infinite-life","tag-long-periods-of-time","tag-purgatory","tag-spades","tag-true-commitment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10366,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10365\/revisions\/10366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}