Blog comments posted direct on Twitter instead of Blog
Seeing this more and more. Use Twitter to announce a new Blog post, which is great. Really handy for marketing and advertising yourself. I myself have been notified of new posts from Twitter feeds on Twhirl which I have then subsequently ventured over to the Blog in question to read said post.
What I am noticing is that after reading and leaving a comment on the Blog itself, people are going back to the Twitter feed and leaving comments and remarks about said post there instead of the blog.
I see this becoming more and more the norm, as it enables a quicker response to the post and a swifter reply from the blog post author or maybe a discussion forming from other Twitter users.
Not sure if this is a good thing, a bad thing or just another thing.
Case in point is a Blog post over on TechCrunch ‘Look Out Twhirl, Alert Thingy Adds Twitter Support‘. On the post itself, there were, at time of writing this post, around 15 direct comments.
I became aware of this post through an alert on my FriendFeed ‘AlertThingy’, and already there were about 10 replies/comments on this feed relating to this post. For me, it was more intuitive to leave to reply and leave a comment on this ‘live’ feed rather than the actual blog post. Within a few moments of leaving my own comments, I have a number of replies to my comments. This just would not happen direct on the Blog, especially in that time frame.
At the time of writing, there were close to 20 replies/comments on my FriendFeed from AlertThingy.
Two simultaneous discussions about the same post on two different applications. Amazing. I for one would probably not have left a comment on the Blog even if Alertthingy was not around. So in this case, the post has hooked me in, albeit more because of the free flowing nature of the replies and comments being generated from the FriendFeed ‘feed’.
Certainly, it may affect the overall statistics of your blog, less comments could have a negative impact on your sites success. Clearly some blogs rely heavily on comments as a means to ‘hook’ other readers, the more comments the more popular the blog shows itself to be.
Just another observation about how swiftly things change.
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