I suspect that the Twitter hiatus will last the weekend, at least.

[UPDATE: Geez, I had to end up deleting Tweetdeck.  This stuff is addictive.]

Mixed results from yesterday: I managed to stay off for most of the day, but it eventually took disconnecting this site from Twitter (because I would forget, and let the site post from Twitter, and then people would react to those posts, and I’d get a notification*) and protecting my Tweets (because when I did cheat and go onto Tweetdeck the urge to reply to stuff was nigh-insurmountable**) to get into that state.  But I think that I’ve plugged all the holes, now. We’ll see. But I need a couple of legit off-Twitter days to assess what it’s doing to my head.

Moe Lane

*I now really grok what ‘Pavlovian’ means.  That chime literally makes me drop whatever I’m doing to go look.  I had to delete Twitter from my iPod.

**I thought about suspending my account, but that comes with a specific socio-political message right now. Protecting the tweets means nobody can read my new ones, so there’s no point in writing them – and nobody can see my responses, so there’s no point in making them***.

***No, I don’t want to hear of any loopholes.  And that’s in the ‘tell me about a loophole and I may in fact turn off your account here’ sense. The idea is to keep off the stuff for a couple days, remember?

7 thoughts on “I suspect that the Twitter hiatus will last the weekend, at least.”

    1. No, although an earlier, weaker version of this experiment led me to unfollow a bunch of people over the last week. I believe that you were on that list, and I don’t want to be rude about why. You gotta run your Twitter feed your way, man. I respect that.

  2. you don’t need to quit reading, just don’ provide them with free content. Put up 1-3 tweets/day, just links to your own site. That’s the official Ace plan, I think.

    1. Yeah, but the real problem here is that I am trying to stay off Twitter. 🙂 I suspect that a huge hunk of my mood was coming from information overload: constant message repetition really might be the problem that some people were saying that it was, on general principles. Having to process information a little less quickly does seem to be having a regulating effect on my emotional state. Which is, by the way, not at dangerous levels or anything; I’m just trying to head any future problems off at the pass.

  4. Good for you, Moe. You’re dealing with it before it becomes a serious problem, and I can only applaud and encourage that.

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