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		petervandijck on March 24, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Some Thoughts on the Federated Social Networks Why were blogs replaced by Facebook and Twitter? Because you get more comments on Facebook and Twitter. It has nothing to do with funding.

michaelchisari on March 24, 2011 [–]

What evidence do you have that blogs were replaced by Facebook and Twitter (and not simply augmented by them)?

petervandijck on March 24, 2011 | [–]

Lots of anecdotal evidence of people no longer posting things on their blog but on these services instead. Been going on for years now.

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