5 Similarities between Twitter and Blogs – For Bloggers By Bloggers

Similarities between Twitter and Blogs

Last Wednesday, I covered the similarities between Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution and Blogging, today, its about the similarities of twitter and blogs. There are actually similarities between blogs and Twitter, and I’m not talking about the basic how many characters one can write on blogs compared to Twitter. However, when taking a look at building a community on Twitter and on blogs, they are basically the same. What do I mean by that?

Good contents build communities

Content content content! That is basically what everyone say you need in order to be successful on your blog. What about Twitter? If you want to build a community on twitter, you need great tweets too. You want to post tweets that you want people to read. Don’t just post tweets for the sake of posting. If you do so and post spam, people will just look away, and this is similar to blogging.

Title is important on twitter and blogs

Title is important! On blogs and on Twitter, it makes people click your tweets or your blog posts if you have an amazing title. It also makes people open that email notification if they have subscribed via email or rss. Jim wrote a blog post on how he increased traffic on his blog using great titles. This is why I have always put great focus on the title of my tweets. Sometimes, I use a direct title like “similarities between Twitter and blogs”, and sometimes I play it more conversational like “is there any similarities between Twitter and blogs?” Some titles work better than others. Play around with it.

Will people like what I post or tweet?

Not everyone will like what you write on your blog and not everyone will like what you tweet too. Some post connects with part of your readers on blogs and on Twitter. And in doing so, you might actually cause some tension within other groups of people. You can’t write for everyone on twitter or on your blog.

Commenting builds attention for your blog and on twitter

If you don’t have enough people commenting on your blog what do you do? You comment on other people’s blogs to get them to notice you. That is basically what you do on Twitter too. You comment on other people’s tweets and get their attention. You build and engage from there and get people to notice your tweets.

Don’t tweet or blog too much

I think we shouldn’t tweet too much and fill our time line with too many tweets, same goes with blogging, since I don’t think you should blog too much. Someone whom I recently met unsubscribed from Chris Brogan’s blog because he blogged too much, although I don’t have any problems with @ChrisBrogan. Don’t over tweet. One person who I think tweet too much or automate too much is Chris Voss on Twitter. (Sorry man, just stating it out)

What other similarities do you think there are?

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http://artistpoint360.blogspot.com/ Rachelle

Your post explains why I like to tweet and blog. Although I seem to tweet much more than I blog mainly for the ease of tweeting. It seems that the time commitment involved with writing a good content blog far exceeds the time involved with tweeting good content tweets. What do you think?
http://askaaronlee.com Aaron Lee

Well, tweeting is a lot easier and doesn’t require a lot of characters like a blog post do. However in terms of making an impact, blogs makes a bigger impact in my opinion.

Tweeting a lot more is normal however I do notice people who is committed in blogging and they go on twitter, read a few tweets and go back to blogging and doesn’t tweet till they have finished blogging. I might share this next wednesday.

So usually when I write something, i just switch twitter and facebook off!

Thanks for commenting.

Aaron
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http://www.thejackb.com Jack

I think that it is really hard to determine what it means to tweet or blog too much. You can’t please everyone and what one person likes another hates. The most important thing is to find the balance that makes you happy.

That leads to better content and is more likely to help you grow and retain readers/followers.
http://www.h3roicwrit3r.wordpress.com E.J. Apostrophe

Thank you, Aaron, for this post. As a new user to Twitter, I am learning and experimenting myself with what works and what doesn’t. I agree that engagement is the key word of the Twitterverse and making sure to deliver tweets of value to others.
- http://askaaronlee.com Aaron Lee
  
  My pleasure E.J.
  
  As long as I am able to help, it puts a smile on my face. Let me know what other methods works for you. Would be happy to learn from you. Cheers
http://vasimpleservices.com Genevieve Lachance

Hi Aaron, you know I’m a big fan of yours and I agree with most of your post except for the last part about not blogging or Tweet too much. Now I’m not an expert blogger like Danny Brown and I really don’t have anywhere close to your volume of followers on Twitter. But it seems that although Chris Brogan blogs a lot, the frequency of his articles are not an issue and in fact it might be one of the reasons why he’s so successful. The great thing about the online stuff is that we chose to read, follow or subscribe to it. It is not pushed on us like other media. If Chris Voss Tweets too much and people don’t like it, they can chose to unfollow and it’s up to Chris Voss to decide if it works for him or not. I don’t think that there’s a magic recipe for success or a best amount of tweets or blog posts to publish. It all depends on what you’re trying to achieve.
- http://askaaronlee.com Aaron Lee
  
  Hi Geneveive,
  
  I agree, there is definitely no magic recipe for success for sure. it all depends on your readers (blog, twitter etc) and how they find it. As for me Brogan’s blog post is not an issue to me to. As I follow a lot of blog post. So i have to agree that we choose what we read.
  
  However, Chris Voss is too much for me. His automatic twitter tweets every minute. Not sure how i how people would feel following him. Most probably most of them would tune off not knowing what tweets are actually important and what is not. However if it works for him, cheers to him. However I am just stating that if one post too much, people will tune off.
  
  Thank you for your comment. Big hugs~
http://blog.esimplestudios.com Gabriele Maidecchi

How I see it, your Twitter presence is better off orbiting around your blog. The platform is a blogger’s best companion, they work together seasmlessly and they boost each other. Tweeting without a blog is a bit like wasting resources to me. I mean, sure, you can build a community but, around what? If you don’t have a “base of operations”, so to say, I don’t see much of a point for it, but maybe it’s just me.
- http://askaaronlee.com Aaron Lee
  
  Hello Gabriele,
  
  Definitely its not just you as I agree with you. However, I think starting off without a blog is alright, twitter can be used as a connector or networking tool first. Its like going to a business conference without a business but to network with people getting to know businesses first. I actually tweeted a year without a blog because I wanted to network first. After that I blog for a year and half now. Next would be growing facebook which I am learning now. I am taking it step by step.
  
  Blogging and tweeting did help me a lot. So definitely works better orbiting around the blog. Thanks for the comment.
http://www.saraharrow.co.uk Sarah Arrow

Perhaps us followers (of blogs and tweets) make the mistake of thinking we have to read everything that is written or tweeted? Surely we are a bit selective and read what we think is interesting and not every single thing one person tweets or blogs?
- http://askaaronlee.com Aaron Lee
  
  Hello Sarah, definitely.
  
  Guess most of us thought we have to read everything, that is why Guy Kawasaki always say, if you don’t like, you can ignore it or just unfollow me. Even with a tweet an hour, people still say I tweet too much. I just ignore it though.