I’ve noticed a direct correlation between the increase in Twitter and the decrease in blogging.  Not that I still don’t get thousands of blogs a day in my RSS reader, but I noticed it in the high volume analyst bloggers and the top analyst Twitterer’s, thanks Jonny.

To confirm this, I asked James Governor if my hypothesis was correct and he confirmed it is true, but that there is more to this than just the blogging effect.  Underlying twitter is another discussion that carries on in answering or discussing issues.  Full investigation into that is worth looking at and that is the value.  Naturally, I asked him to present this to the A/R crowd, and he agreed to blog about it as a starter.  Look for that discussion at the above link to his blog.

But What About Blogging?

James did say that there is an upside.  A lot can be handled by Twitter, but his defense of blogging is that it’s relevancy has increased.  Now when something is blogged, it either can’t be addressed in the 140 count, or it needs to be dealt with in depth, and a blog is the place to do it.  So the blog discussion gets bumped up and issues are also solved on Twitter.

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