colinwalker
colinwalker
A forgotten anniversary colinwalker.blog
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elliot
elliot

@colinwalker It's interesting to read about a few other people who ditched Twitter completely around the same time as I did last year. I haven't deleted my account either, though only because I don't like the idea of someone else potentially using my username.

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colinwalker
colinwalker

@elliot There is always that. And I suppose not deleting it does always pave the way to a return should the mood ever take us.

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colinwalker
colinwalker

@elliot Oh, and I love that post! A great set of rules to blog by.

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Bruce
Bruce

@elliot Great post. I might even blog about my agreements and disagreements. ;) As for ye olde Twitter, I've somehow managed to curate a not too overwhelming feed that exposes me to some writing I wouldn't find otherwise. Like this article about parole and the absurd number of black men caught up in it.

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elliot
elliot

@Bruce Thanks šŸ˜„ A year on, I don't agree with all of it myself! ā€œNo categoriesā€ certainly went out of the window very quickly, though surprisingly I've managed to refrain from buying any domains which is a small miracle in and of itself.

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Bruce
Bruce

@elliot Oh domains. I have a bunch, but they're mostly just options for a little Theater/Phillips Hue project. Somehow I've kept the same name for my blog even though 99% of readers won't get it. And George Fox probably wouldn't have a ton to say about microblogging.

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elliot
elliot

@Bruce Twitter certainly does surface some good writing, the signal to noise ratio wasn't worth the time investment for me personally though. I've found that a carefully curated set of RSS feeds and newsletters written by people who scour the internet in search of the best content saves a lot of time and surfaces more (though perhaps different) quality content more reliably and more efficiently than Twitter ever did.

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elliot
elliot

@colinwalker I suppose so yeah. As things stand at the moment though, you couldn't pay me to take Twitter back into my life.

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colinwalker
colinwalker

@elliot Ha, yeah, Iā€™m in the same boat.

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elliot
elliot

@colinwalker Thanks! Not all of them have stuck, but what I'd consider to be the important ones have.

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Bruce
Bruce

@elliot I definitely use RSS more than Twitter, but there are a lot of activists, sex workers, trans folk, etc, who don't have blogs. Some links NSFW.

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Bruce
Bruce

@elliot Also helps that I only follow 334 accounts. And I should probably prune that a bit.

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elliot
elliot

@Bruce I'd say that most of my time on Twitter was probably spent in the mid-to-high 200s and I think even that was probably too many for me. I suppose it comes down to how vocal the accounts you follow are.

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Bruce
Bruce

@elliot True. I try not to be a completionist though. Twitterrific helps as it will throw away any but the most recent 999 posts (still a ton, but I don't have to read them all).

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Bruce
Bruce

@elliot Speaking of finding things I wouldn't otherwise. Here's an amazing interview with Samuel Delaney, a black, queer SF author. His Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand blew my mind for all sorts of reasons!

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