Twitter vs blogging
My rate of blogging has dropped dramatically since I saw how @dalmaer was able to get so much news out via Twitter. I was slow to adopt Twitter, but now I love it. If you follow my blog but aren’t following me on Twitter, you should start following me: @souders. Here are some of the important tweets I’ve made in the last few days:
- IE 9 Beta is now available in http://WebPagetest.org – let’s hear it for @patmeenan!
- IE blog about need realistic benchmarks http://bit.ly/a3WR1c; Mozilla announces “Kraken focuses on realistic workloads” http://bit.ly/9wMGYn
- VCs tend to back companies with fast web sites (via @joshuabixby) – http://bit.ly/aLXaIf
- Do you use <meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width”> in your mobile web app? You should (via @ppk). http://bit.ly/9IuhzT
- Browserscope shows IE9 beta’s network behavior is improved. I’m surprised scripts & images can’t download in parallel. http://bit.ly/dpileW
- IE6 is now available on http://WebPagetest.org for Dulles, VA. Awesome work by Pat Meenan.
- Great survey of how YSlow score relates to page load time from Yottaa: http://blog.yottaa.com/2010/09/how-important-is-my-yslow-score/
- be careful using Web Inspector for performance analysis; JS execution can cause network events to be mistimed; Speed Tracer has same problem
- Had to file a FF bug and forgot the URL. Then remembered this Browser Resources page from Browserscope: http://www.browserscope.org/browsers
- About to start the first meeting of the W3C Web Performance Working Group: http://www.w3.org/2010/webperf/
You get the idea. I won’t do this blog-retweeting again, but if you care about web performance I hope you’ll follow me on Twitter.
bob | 16-Sep-10 at 1:41 am | Permalink |
I don’t like the signal to noise ratio on the twitter thing. Which pretty much sums up twitter, actually.
Some Doood | 16-Sep-10 at 3:06 am | Permalink |
How about a weekly digest of interesting tweets? There are services which can do this automatically for you.
Rob | 20-Sep-10 at 7:24 am | Permalink |
I agree with the above, how about something like Simon Willison‘s “Elsewhare” sidebar for his blog?
Re-posting your twitters on your blog makes it easier for those of us that don’t use twitter. We do exist behind the hype.
Ed | 21-Sep-10 at 5:48 am | Permalink |
Don’t really want to get my technical information mixed in with Craig Ferguson’s tweets about the late late show. like bob said, S/N ratio way too low.
You used to have interesting things to say. With twitter’s short-form, you only have room to reference other folks’ work.
I’m bummed.
Steve Souders | 21-Sep-10 at 10:35 am | Permalink |
@bob: Wrt signal to noise ratio – only follow people who have a good ratio. I have a few personal tweets, but 90% of them are performance related.
@Doood & @Rob: Maybe I’ll do the weekly digest blog post.
@Ed: The lack of blogging has little to do with Twitter. I’m wrestling with four hard, long term projects right now and want to blog as I knock them off. Twitter is less for my own original work, and more for spreading info.
performance testing | 22-Sep-10 at 6:02 pm | Permalink |
Twitter stirred up a lot of media coverage a few weeks ago when it introduced its first serious attempt at generating revenue in the form of promoted tweets, which allow companies to sponsor their tweets so that they rise to the top of users’ searches.
Aji (TechShu.com) | 25-Sep-10 at 11:29 am | Permalink |
Sometime its tough to follow twitter because I want to follow a person for one dimension of him not all dimensions. Sometimes technical people start tweeting a lot more than tech stuff :). I think time to have different groups like FB has.
Btw, I started following you now :).
Qazzian | 26-Nov-10 at 9:37 am | Permalink |
WRT the Signal to noise ratio, looking at your tweet sample shows me that you mainly tweet about other blogs, most of which I already follow or other bloggers also post about (that’s what ajaxian etc is for) hence this is mostly noise. Following a blog is about reading new research and insights on specific topics.
Anyway, looking forward to your next blog post and reading about your current projects.