Comments on: Are Twitter Conversations Dying?

By: michelle

michelle — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:59:46 +0000

YES!

By: yamasas (yamasas)

yamasas (yamasas) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:48:55 +0000

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By: collin douma

collin douma — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:21:00 +0000

I have noticed that Twitter is gutting my blog stats on technorati. Comments are way down, links are way down. However, readership is up over a 1000 a day and subscriptions are strong. I wonder if Tweeting about recent blog posts are actually moving the conversation there and off my blog. A few short months ago I was ranked 26000 with an authority of nearly 100 (if i recall). Now I am a sad 190k (ish) with authority in the 30s. Is it me? Is it Technorati? Is it Twitter? Is it all three?

hmmmm.

By: Rick Weiss

Rick Weiss — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:00:51 +0000

I’m standing with Rayanne and Todd. I’ve been tweeting less because I’m home less, and busier at work.
But I have been noticing fewer engaging conversations.

By: Rayanne Langdon

Rayanne Langdon — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:42:03 +0000

Hah, Defren’s a genius, as always.

I still don’t think people are moving away from Twitter. If they’re going to “micro-blog”, they’ll do it there. If they leave or if they’re not there, they probably aren’t “micro-blogging”.

By: Karen Swim

Karen Swim — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:43:17 +0000

Dave, I think your observation is accurate and I attribute it to several issues: 1) the instability of Twitter led users to seek out other services such as Plurk, Rejaw, Kwippy, etc. As users fragment their time between multiple services, there are fewer tweets. 2) the natural maturation of the market. It’s no longer new and shiny and long term users are spending less time on “water cooler” talk. 3) The US election. Many have deserted Twitter in the past few weeks tiring of the endless play by play and often heated debates.

With competition from many other services making it easier to follow threaded conversations, I am not sure we will see the activity level at previous levels on Twitter until the next wave adopt the technology.

By: Todd Defren

Todd Defren — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:10:29 +0000

Summer.

By: Neil Gorman

Neil Gorman — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:09:55 +0000

Dave,

I think your spot on with what your seeing. But, I also think that the Twitter user base it to blame for this. I say that because I find that many people are now using Twitter as a service to drive traffic to their web based projects (blogs, videos, podcasts, etc) rather than a way to engage in a conversation.

In short: Twitter use to be the sort of water cooler that people could gather around and chat about things. Now it is a acting more like a bulletin board where people post things they want others to look at, but if they talk about it they do it at the posters desk rather than the water cooler.

Does that make sense?

-N

By: michelle

michelle — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:40:26 +0000

I have several different people that I follow that are always asking questions. I only answer if I feel strongly about the content of the question. Otherwise, I have better things to do with my time.

By: Peter O'Connell

Peter O'Connell — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:57:20 +0000

Dave:

My personal usage has decreased because I found other tools to use when the system was down. Twitter was as ingrained in me at the time so I didn’t miss it as much.

Also the interaction seems to me anyway to have decreased. Or maybe it was just because it was summer.

Best always,
- Peter