Technorati Is Dying - Long Live Twitter

It seems that Technorati has finally succumbed to Twitter. While they are still kicking, they seem to have lost the throne of having been the biggest blog search engine to Twitter, the new micro blogging kid on the blog.

In the past, when webmasters wanted to have new updated blog content, a short visit to Technorati quickly revealed whispers of the blogosphere. The inbuilt WordPress feature of incoming links was also cool as it allowed blog owners to thank the person who linked to them via a comment on their blog.

I always tried to stay up to date and show courtesy where it was applicable but lately I noticed a standstill in my Dashboard and wondered whether everybody had stopped linking to me. By the way, I’m still running the pre-WordPress 2.5 version and then it was Technorati links that show up in your Dashboard.

In the new versions it is Google blog search links that show within the admin. So noting the standstill I realized that people still linked to me but it would no longer show within my WordPress dashboard.

Not knowing why, it was made all too clear when Mashable posted an entry titled Twitter Killed Technorati, Too. By then it all became clear and after checking the Twitter search engines mentioned on their blog I realized that Technorati indeed seems to have lost some of their previous oomph.

One of the major reasons why I haven’t upgraded yet was because of the nifty Technorati feature, but seeing what I do now there is no holding me back to upgrade once and for all.

What about you? Have you noticed a change in Technorati too?

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Comment by Leesa Barnes

2008-06-18 14:54:56

I too am on an older version of Wordpress and noticed that the Incoming Links on my dashboard hasn’t been updated in almost a month.

I also subscribe to my the RSS feed of my name in Technorati and was floored when my reader showed me that around 20 people blogged about me in one day. However, when I checked the timestamp, those 20 blog posts were done over a 2 month period. It seems like Technorati updates it directory ever so often now.

Is Technorati dying? I think so. And it doesn’t help that Technorati updates itself once every couple of months. It then becomes useless and not relevant.

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Comment by Hanifa K. Cook

2008-07-03 14:35:15

I don’t know men! Twitter is like reporting to people out there our every movement in our daily lives. Like if you are blogger, you are supposed to be writing what you know best. That’s why I still find Technorati is still by far reflects the expertise of the authors behind the desk. With Twitter, it is trendy and fashionable. Just claimed a new blog on Technorati too.

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Comment by jt

2008-07-21 23:37:43

I think marketers are just now figuring out the Twitter thing. Check out all the IMrs on it now and their focus.
I think the days of I just ate a donut are about over on Twitter and look for more content.

I will be interested to see how this plug-in http://www.tweetmyblog.com/?rid=1719
and others like it affect marketing for all business.

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