Twitter Gains, Reader Declines
June 19th, 2008
Although I spend way too much time on the Internet, my free time is a fixed quantity. I have observed that as I spend more time following people via Twitter (my handle is @burke_eric), I spend far less time using Google Reader and following blogs in general.
Rather than spending my time wading through hundreds of blog posts, I am happy to let the people I follow on Twitter find the good stuff.
For the record, I tried Twitter a long time ago and hated it. After deleting my account and avoiding Twitter for several months, I returned. I find it much more engaging now, largely because they hit critical mass and there are more interesting people to follow.
Now if they can just resolve their scalability issues… 
there is Plurk too. The interface is very nice but they missed the SMS and API feature.