Live Mint on Microblogging vs. Blogging

Here’s a quote from Live Mint on whether microblogging will replace blogging:

An estimated 3.6 million people use Facebook out of India, according to the website, and at least 13 million estimated users have accounts on the Google-owned Orkut. Twitter does not break down its users according to country, but gets seven million unique visitors monthly worldwide, according to Nielsen, a US-based market research firm.

“Bloggers are turning to active twittering, both as an alternative to posting regularly as well spreading the message about their blogs. Twitter and Orkut don’t replace the blogs, they complement them,” says Amit Agarwal, who writes a tech blog called Digital Inspiration. The conversation that was once an exclusive preserve of the blog and forum, is now shifting to Twitter and social networks.

Tweet now, blog later!