How Twitter is hurting the blogosphere (and more generally Web sites)

The thrust of the story is that people no longer need to visit blogs, or other Web sites that update content, because they can simply read the headlines on Twitter and then go to the sites only if they see something that really and truly peaks their interest.  I.e., no more browsing sites just to see what's there.

In a way it's what happened to newspapers first.  I stopped reading the Washington Post print edition because it was easier to read it online.  But even online, I don't read the paper religiously every day, if only because there's so much competition from other papers.  More often than not, I see something on Twitter about an article in the Post, then if I'm interested, I go to the Post and read the article.

All of this means less traffic for blogs, but really less traffic for lots of other sites too.  And that means less revenue, which matters if you care about the blogs you follow and the newspapers you read.