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Good summary that shows how fast moving a target blogging is. Might add Friendfeed.. and whatever comes up next, it's al about the convergence of all sorts of social media tools with blogging

saved by54 people, first byZoli Erdos on 2009-01-04, last byGabriela Grosseck on 2009-01-04

  • Cynthia McCune
    • Bloggers will start to add “Tweetbacks” to their blog posts.
    • More bloggers will mix blog posts and tweets into a single column together a la Tumblr, rather than keeping them in the sidebar. More new themes will have a built-in style for displaying tweets in an elegant way amongst blog posts. Wordpress users will find the Twitter tools plugin useful.
    • See the WP-Twitip-ID Plugin Wordpress plugin.
    • In addition to blog rolls, bloggers will list their favorite tweeters and optionally a short note on why they’re worth following to help others discover new tweeters.
    • In addition to blog rolls, bloggers will list their favorite tweeters and optionally a short note on why they’re worth following to help others discover new tweeters.
    • While many bloggers change their Twitter theme to match their blog’s themes as closely as possible, this will also work in reverse. Influenced by Twitter’s design, bloggers will use more background images on their blogs and use the limitations of theming their Twitter page to influence how they design their blog.
  • Bob Furst
    • In 2008, Twitter (Twitter reviews) really started to hit the mainstream and bloggers began adding widgets to their sidebars to display their latest tweets.
  • Marc Harrison

    • In 2008, Twitter really started to hit the mainstream and bloggers began adding widgets to their sidebars to display their latest tweets.


      In 2009, Twitter will become much more tightly integrated with the rest of the blog in a variety of ways - watch out for tweetbacks and tweetstats to make their debut, and tweet comments to TwitterRolls to start appearing on blogs. Here are 10 ways Twitter will impact blogs this year.

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