A vacation from Twitter
written by Steven on June 13, 2008
In the past two months I have been out of the "office" for at least four weeks, touring the world, attending and speaking at conferences, and I took a holiday. I am still behind. This week I was desperate for a break and an increase of productivity. So I did something that I didn't even do while on holiday with my family....I took a vacation from Twitter and Instant Messaging. When I woke up Tuesday morning I closed Twitterific and iChat and any IRC channels that are not part of the communication chain of my company and declared bankruptcy on my email inbox.
The result is I feel great! I have no idea what I missed. Did anyone get married? Any kids born? Any cool new almost Web 2.5 site released? I have no idea. And I am fine with that. I hope I did not slight anyone who might have sent me any directs or @stevenbristol's. If so I am sorry. In an effort to retain my increased level of productivity, I am going to be making some deep cuts regarding who I follow. I am going to try to keep my follow list to 10 folks plus a few more who only tweet rarely.
I feel almost as free as I felt when I quit smoking ten years ago. I am hoping to keep this feeling going.
I recommend trying a little Twitter break to anyone feeling a bit squeezed.
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Steven Bristol has written code for the past 20 years. He like green vegetables and kittens, oh and butterflies too. He loves to throw ninja stars at his enemies.
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+1. Similar experience yesterday. Closed a bunch of apps including twitterific to focus yesterday morning. It got to be late last night before I realized that it was still closed.
Twitter is just a river of information. You don’t need to kayak it all the time but, it can be fun to ride occasionally.
You better not stop following me. Otherwise I concur. ;-)