January 31, 2010
A Twitter Vacation
There comes a time when what's brewing under the surface breaks through. For me the breakthrough is the need for a little Twitter Vacation.
I love Twitter, the friends I have on Twitter and how connected I am through it, with people in Milwaukee and around the world.
Now, I'm not going to leave Twitter forever. Rather, this will be a 3 week experiment off of the service to see how being Twitter-free effects me.
Why the Vacation?
I've sensed lately that I need to take a step back. I've caught myself constantly checking my Twitter mentions, working very hard to tweet something of value and scanning my live feed in Tweetie for something, anything interesting to read.
While that's typical Twitter user behavior, I've felt this incessant attraction to scanning random tweets and replies at all times to be distracting my focus from more important things in my life rght now.
As you may know, we've added a baby girl to the family, which is wonderful and understandably, quite time consuming.
Couple our 3 month old baby girl with a stack of personal projects and plans to be made for SXSW Interactive in March -- it all adds up to a pile of important things I must focus on.
So, as an experiment, as of February 1, 2010, I'll be leaving my Twiiter feeds sit idle while I catch up on everything else in my life.
I'll come back in 3 weeks, on February 22nd and report my findings here.
This ought to be fun!
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