I'm quitting for awhile. This is not newsworthy.<p>I will be back, I just want to break the cycle of the compulsion to check it given that I think it's healthier in much smaller doses.<p>I also think Twitter will make changes to the behavior the product rewards, and it will make it a much better place to be.<p>Just to say it, I also think Twitter will be a very valuable company.
I think this will be a growing trend for all social networks among the more thoughtful crowd (or at least a large curtailing of usage). What value does signing into these platforms many times per day really bring, especially considering the negative effects of distraction?<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/18/modern-world-bad-for-brain-daniel-j-levitin-organized-mind-information-overload" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/18/modern-world...</a>
I enjoy Twitter myself but it does reward low-effort, high-dopamine-reward behaviour like snark, sarcasm and trolling. I don't blame him at all.<p>It's a platform built on easy-mode interaction - getting to know people in depth is more difficult.
Twitter's base DNA was building a "broadcast" platform with a simplistic I/O of communication between two parties. (keyword TWO)<p>This makes sense in the context of Twitter's underpinnings in emergency vehicle / taxi dispatch. (1)<p>What it's actually becomes is a massive discussion board where information is organized around people rather than topics.<p>With the genius tweak of limiting to 140 characters to drive word economy and a low commitment tax to open the app and participate.<p>As such I am baffled why they don't roll some basic community and forum management tools.<p>People are having discussions! In a group!<p>So give them some tools to solve the oldest community challenges in the book of trolling, content discovery, relationship development, etc.<p>(1) <a href="http://www.briansolis.com/2011/04/twitter-co-founder-jack-dorsey-and-the-ideas-that-sparked-a-revolution/" rel="nofollow">http://www.briansolis.com/2011/04/twitter-co-founder-jack-do...</a>
I've pretty much entirely quit using Twitter for communication outside of the NBA Twitter micro-community. Besides that, I use it for news and to follow Pinboard, HN Onion, and other parodies.