A few days without twitter

Published by neil on April 7th, 2008

I was initially resistant about twitter, the micro-blogging service that has opened a new means of trivial communication across the net. I cannot say it has become an invaluable tool, but it is a valued accompaniment to my day.

For the past few days, and for no particular reason, I decided to de-twitterfy my life. I neither read from nor posted to twitter (apart from automated posts from this blog whenever I publish a blog post). It is now towards the end of the third full day and I feel just a little detached. Work and personal project schedules disable any real effort in maintaining communication streams with friends, and so twitter filled that gap by maintaining most of those friends (those also using twitter, of course) within my peripheral vision as they tweeted their way through their days.

I have the urge to divert even more of my day away from working on my big project (TableRappers) to emailing various friends to reach out and discover how they are getting on - I have resisted as that will kill a chink of productivity.

This was an interesting exercise in understanding the place twitter has in my day to day activity, and I’m delighted to say it will remain a part of it for a good while (though the odd holiday here and there is inevitable).

Tags: communication, productivity, twitter
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