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RE: Why aren't there any micro blogs ever trending?
You know, I think you have a point. I came into this looking to blog, and I wrote long posts. Sometimes I got great comments, sometimes nothing. I started another account to microblog. I just wanted to keep my blog what it was and not have it interspersed with actifit and steepshot photos. But at the same time I wanted to use those apps. I found that my shorter posts from an account with fewer followers got more engagement.
Well this is a ridiculously long comment and it's going to go against my point. I worked at a place where my main job was taking other people's long winded writing and shortening it to just get to the point. Maybe I should remember the value of brevity.
I would also add that it was much easier to make long posts when I had a job with a computer and later had no job. Now that I have a job that requires actually working all day, I don't have time to write long articles. If steemit is ever supposed to be widely adopted, it needs to accept that those people may have jobs that don't allow time for longform writing. Also, mobile phones might be their only internet access and aren't fun to write essays with.
100% agree. A lot of my posts come from my phone. If I type something longer, it's because I'm on my laptop. And I don't mind combining my actifit and steepshot posts to my steemit, I'm working tirelessly on getting my friends who are so infatuated with twitter and instagram to make the move to steemit. I could see steemit growing to over 3 billion people. All you gotta tell them is that it's an instagram that pays you.