I’ve been using Twitter pretty regularly for well over a year and I’m thinkng about letting it go. Over time, I find it less and less useful and increasingly annoying. I’ve been pretty careful about whom I follow, but the tweets seem to fall into two camps: obsessive ed tech tweeters who give me a dozen links a day to resources I don’t have time to follow up on, or personal tweets about airplane flights, feeling the urge to go to White Castle, or complaining about parking meters. Managing who follows you also became a pain when the marketing people started inundating Twitter with follow requests.
The best reason to keep it is for those people and organizations I don’t normally encounter elsewhere online — Tour De France cyclists, conference organizers who update on Twitter faster and sooner than on their websites, former colleagues I don’t usually IM or email…those tweets I would miss. But for the most part, other online tools like iChat, LinkedIn, and Facebook seem much better suited to my style of working and sharing. With the time it takes to manage one’s online profile, there’s not really much room for tools that don’t deliver the goods.
Posted on August 6th, 2009 by Curt Lieneck
Filed under: General Interest
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