I never was a blogger. I thought I had nothing special to say about things that others would be interested in. The I got introduced to Twitter at Adobe’s on AIR Tour Europe 2008 at Berlin and became really fast addicted to this micro form of blogging. Together with some colleagues I am very interested in how microblogging can be used as a communication channel in conferences and other settings (the software engineering process for example).

But even with its enormous advantages in speed, shortness and the viral dissemination of news, microblogging has a main disadvantage: it’s simply not made for expressing longer ideas or discussing thoughts in a more deeply way. Don’t get me wrong, I really love microblogging in a lot of settings, but I don’t understand people saying “Twitter killed my blog“. Twitter did kill my feedreader as all the interesting links, photos etc. now come from my friends and followers on Twitter (maybe that’s another reason why you should follow everyone back). But at least for me with starting Twitter the “need” for having a blog to raise some questions, to discuss ideas and thoughts in a more deeply way just became to be.

What about you? Did Twitter kill your blog? Why is it like that? Did Twitter killed your feedreader as well? Where do you get your relevant information from nowadays?