Twitter no more...

[sleigh]

Having played with Twitter for a month or so now, I'm finding that I'm not all that interested in everybody's tweets, nor do I bother to tweet much myself. The character imitation makes everything feel shallow and superficial to me, and far too many of the posts are of the "I'm eating chicken for dinner" variety, which bore me entirely. At this point, I think I'll simply let Twitter lie fallow for a week or so, see if I miss it (I expect not to miss it at all), and then close the account...

Anyone want to argue for staying active on Twitter? Am I missing something?

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[born-to-me.livejournal.com]

I'll do what I always do when someone asks about Twitter.

I have a Twitter account, I follow a few people, sometimes I think to turn Tweetdeck on. It's mostly irritating to me.

That having been said, I don't dislike the "microblogging" concept, so I hang out at Plurk (http://www.plurk.com/born2me). It's a very social social network, Twitter-esque, but threaded. It tends to be a little deeper than "I had chicken for dinner" because others can chime in about chicken in threads, which makes it like abbreviated LJ. I've met a lot of great people there, so I always mention it as an alternative.

(Now I notice that gundo has already mentioned it... the timeline aspect is also very nice and makes it better than Twitter, IMHO.)