Comments on: Inverse Relationship Between Blog Posts Frequency and Tweet Frequency

By: Jim Benson

Jim Benson — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:03:32 +0000

What I have found is that we only have so much time to communicate, but that different types of communication interfaces engender different kinds of communication.

So when you notice that your tweets are more human – that’s due to the type of communication that twitter rewards.

When people say “blogging is dead”, they usually have to say it in a blog post because twitter won’t allow depth beyond 140 characters.

I appreciate how you are looking at the trade offs here – from personal ,business and information exchange perspectives. You packed a lot in just a few words.

By: psabilla

psabilla — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:36:48 +0000

@Joe – Yeah, the plugin I use is from Alex King; I don’t remember the name, but I just created a new page on shmula.com, then wrote in the php on the empty page and my tweets render. It works pretty well.

@Jon – I use Google SiteMaps and I can see which pages gets prioritized when googlebot indexes shmula.com; All pages were weighted equally, until I created the Twittering… page, and now that gets indexed hourly, while the rest of the site gets indexed daily: it has a higher weight than the other pages. My guess is that the content is fresh, new, and not duplicated anywhere else, so googlebot indexes that site with a higher priority.

By: Joe Rawlinson

Joe Rawlinson — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:36:51 +0000

I like your Twittering page. Did you use a plugin? If so, which one?

By: Jon Miller

Jon Miller — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:20:27 +0000

I still say G. Kawasaki runs a twitter bot.

How does twitter integration with the blog help Google indexing? Frequency of updates on the blog? Content relevance of twits to blog would be iffy. Seems like they would have algorithms to keep twitters off the radar. I’ll try it if it works though.

By: Connor

Connor — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:35:08 +0000

I haven’t yet taken the leap of integrating my tweets into my blog. Perhaps I’ll do so soon; I don’t have any strong arguments against it, I just haven’t seen the need/benefits yet. I’ll rethink that now… thanks for your post.