using twitter as a replacement for a website

[just jr]

hello all ,

just a quick question

we all the basic make money from a website deal

content
marketing
monetize

rinse repeat

however thats not including the maintenance, cost of the website, spam keeping up with emails, finding things to talk about etc

twitter on the other hand has a no spam problems ( that I know of ) content is ready available because you have a network of info to 'retweet' no emails because everyone in your network is tweeting with you no maintenance because twitter does it for you, and you can still can write your long articles and post them on forums like this or scribd and link to it on your twitter

I think you guys get the picture I think its a great idea for young and inexperienced bloggers to get their feet wet. and best of all its free

you dont get adsense or stuff like that but with a big twitter following you can launch a actual website sell some product or service to your followers. there has been cases of people getting jobs just of their conversations from twitter and other social networks.

do you guys know of anyone who has used twitter effectively instead of a website/blog to build their web presence ? I am trying this out now in fact I was going to build a blog to host my value investing articles but I dont want to maintain another website its to much for me