9 Reasons Why I Am Quitting Twitter
April 30th, 2009
I posted the message above two days ago and I wanted to post a few reasons why my Twitter account is going away:
1. Twitter and Facebook status messages serve the same basic purpose. Facebook has the advantage in that it more completely covers the social network with whom I’d like to share my updates.
2. For people outside of my Facebook network, I’d prefer that they follow my work instead of me personally. It’s for this reason that I’m keeping @pwproject and @audaciouscode around.
3. A recent episode of TWIT reminded me how much the whole “Internet personality” thing annoyed me, and keeping a Twitter account around for strangers to follow is a bit too close to that line for me.
4. Twitter has a spam problem and I’m tired of looking into incoming followers to see if they are sapient beings or just SEO/social media marketing droids.
5. I currently feel overexposed online and removing the temptation to tweet about personal stuff helps me regain a bit of opacity.
6. All of the current methods for monitoring Twitter on my desktop fail. They have nice interfaces, but I’d like the rest of my screen back. Chumby + Facebook = WIN.
7. I don’t need to be plugged into the online equivalent of the neighborhood party line while everyone worries about the pig flu, grouses about tea bags, or whatever the bored-at-work meme of the week is. (I’m not completely innocent from participating in this kind of behavior, BTW.)
8. My OCD won’t let me quit halfway.
9. Blogging is the new retro-kitsch. ;-)
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