Of interest.
Theory. I believe I can plot various Twitter peaks against a loss of readership on dangerousmeta!. Sharp in the beginning of ‘07. I’ll bet other webloggers can, too. Attention span shorter? Less time? More personal? Lower barrier to posting? The danger of becoming cloying or dull hovers, and the clever soundbite beckons. Since joining a few days ago, I’ve been surprised at how popular it is ... I’m a very late adopter, obviously. It is more immediate - but not more compelling. I suppose I need more time to ‘get it’. But this solves my ‘mystery loss’ of readership pretty conclusively, along with possibly explaining the lower posting frequencies I’ve seen in other weblogs I follow over this same time period.
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That is quite a website you’ve got there.
Yes, overall traffic shows a downward trend since late 2006/7. Could be I’m uninteresting, I’ve changed stripes or something ... but it correlates pretty well with the rise of Twitter.
Who reads a generalist, an occasional opinion, when there’re more interesting generalizations in bite-sized form?
Rhetorical question.
Interesting theory, too bad you can’t just straight out ask those people. I realize I’m a very small sample size of one, but I don’t know a single person on twitter, though in the past few years everyone I know has finally gotten themselves a computer (even my mom bought a laptop which surprised me).
yeah, dang, twitter is going to make me get friends… no good without them
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I read every post of yours with Google Reader, which I’ve begun using of late. Do you count feed hits?