In response to my last Tweet, I’ve had people asking me all day, “why did you give up on Twitter?” I joked that I’m “tool old for this thing,” but the shortest and most honest answer is I simply didn’t get much value from Twitter. And I knew it a while back.
It’s not surprising because I never really understood Twitter from the beginning. I never learned what “RT” meant, why a “#” was prepended to certain words, and why Direct Messages only showed up in my email. For the 195 Tweets I posted, I can only think of a few instances when I had something to say in less than Twitter’s max 140 character limit. I followed acquaintances on Twitter — people I knew but don’t know — as well as real-life friends. I can’t knock it (I don’t think) because Twitter has millions of users who seem to Tweet all day and all night. But something’s wrong. Twitter’s two founders can’t figure out how they’re going to make money off their invention. Pogue can’t figure it out. And there are rules and snobs. It’s just too much.
In the end, I’m with Pogue: it’s just another time drain.
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