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Don’t get me wrong, I like Twitter and I use it all the time. But since it became the fastest growing channel, the number of real blog comments have dropped enormously. You often find yourself looking through rows of re-tweets that were collected by a Backtype or Disqus plugin at the bottom of a great post to realize that it was retweeted 30 times and commented once… Worse, how many times have you seen an heavily retweeted post with 0 comments ?

Retweeting shows appreciation but it’s gotten so easy, that it seems less and less users takes the time to join the conversation and comment. Not talking about adding  15 char to a retweet here. It’s probably true that Twitter increased the number of participants in those conversations, but they rarely add real value to it but simply passing it to their own network. Which is good but …

Looks like a great opportunity to show your favorite bloggers or new one you just found out about that you value their content and ideas. I am 100% sure they remember more easily comments that retweets… which could be a great opportunity to contact them if you have anything to ask or offer.

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