There has been much testimoy published on blogs and ezines about the effect Google's crackdown on paid links has had on bloggers. Recently I looked into trying to get mine back and came across this article. I did everything it said. Do you think I'll get my once PR4 back? What is your take on the Google "smackdown?" Have you been "spanked?"
Wow. He's obviously irked. I agree that Twitter is used by a lot of people. I have cut wayyyy back on my Twittering but not because it is a bad platform, just that is steals my time from more important things. Let's say you sepnd a cumulative 30 minutes twittering in one day. What do you have to show for it? If you are lucky someone might reply or give you a 20 second hit on your blog.
I have integrated Twitter and Alex King's Twitter Tools into my blog
as my Asides engine. It seems useful for that, plus my friends will see my twits. or maybe my friends are the twits and that's why I don't like Twitter as much as most do ;)
Good point Mike. It's novelty to me I guess and not really a long term interest. I mostly post links to posts I am really excited about. "What I'm doing right now" (Twitter's definition) is a cool concept but hard for me to stay regular at posting. Long live Twitter if someone likes it, I just don't have the time. I thought thos article was interesting in the way it showed the developers were running out of steam. It'd be interesting to hear someone from Twitter rebut that here.
This is NOT scary to me since I would love to see Twitter go away. Yes, I do use it and yes, I do enjoy it but the amount of time and energy it takes to really get traffic from it is far more than the dividends it rewards a blogger. I say, get rid of it the sooner the better.
(I don't think WordPress sucks but I want into this convo)
WordPress sucks because: As Mike noted, it automatically reformats your code in posts. I have used div tags in the past and they worked only to find later they didn't and what's more, entire sections of content had been eliminated ... as they might say "cleaned." I say do away with the corrective auto formatting. I've sort of learned, like a blind man would use his hearing more to get around, that I can rob Peter to pay Paul sometimes and tweak things within the interface to make it work for me ... but then the upgrades cp,e and it messes everything up again.
I haven't tried a whole lot of interfaces, but for my money (free LOL) WordPress does wonders.
You can check out my "default" theme tweaked to suit at my blog.
» Developers Bailing on Twitter ... Last Reply: 6 months ago by rileycentral.
@RightOn: Your post made me want to Twitter for fun today. I may after I swim in my new pool ;) It's 105 up here in the High Desert of California today ... wait! I could have Twittered that! DOH!
Seriously, I've been Twittering a while though and it's novelty has more or less passed. I love seeing what my friends are doing though like Derek Semmler or the Scobeleizer to name a couple.
There's so much to do now. Chawlk is one of my investments these days.