April 11, 2008
gapingvoid: why i deleted my twitter account
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Huge news in the Twittersphere and Blogosphere in the last twenty four hours; Hugh Macleod has deleted his Twitter account.
why i deleted my twitter account
[A cartoon from 2007 etc.]
It’s no big deal. I liked Twitter. But I found it too easy.I think my time would be better spent drawing cartoons and writing books.
That’s just how I feel.
[UPDATE:] This story seems to have made it onto the front page of Techmeme. Lots of people talking about it. Wow.
There are a tons of comments about this decision on Hugh’s post, and the conversation has flowed over to various parts of the blogo/twittersphere.
Some suggest Hugh should have stuck to the Twitter Ten Commandments to have a better experience of Twitter; some have suggested it was a big branding mistake; some praise him for his decision and his change of heart (he once said, “Note to World: If you’re not on Twitter, I don’t want to make friends with you.”); some ask why he deleted it rather than just leave it as an archive for others to read.
Twitter is like any tool, IMHO (’In My Humble Opinion’); there are days where I turn it off to focus, there are days when I leave it on to chat with friends and get the zeitgeist of my online world.
In discussion with Dan York the other day, we both confessed that we read blogs a lot less than we used to and use Twitter more and more as our ‘early warning radar’.
But as I mentioned recently, the ‘burn out’ effect can be real if you don’t manage yourself; let the tools take over control of your life and you risk losing more than your physical health.
Either way, it’s an interesting development from someone very influential and at the leading edge of the online communication and web2.0 world. As someone commented on Hugh’s post, does that mean that ‘gapingvoid‘ (Hugh’s blog) may one day become a gaping void?
gapingvoid: “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards”: why i deleted my twitter account
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