I have a personal twitter account with around 2k followers. But I haven't tweeted in over a year. I really kind of want to. It looks like fun. And it's good for building an audience. But there's something about posting a pithy opinion in < 200 characters that feels smug to me. More than that, I guess, is the feeling of permanence with every opinion. There's not been a time that I haven't looked back on something I said or wrote x number years ago without thinking, wow, I was an absolute moron.<p>How can I overcome self-consciousness and just tweet without GAF? Or am I doing the right thing and the people who tweet 100x/day are actually the weird ones?
><i>I really kind of want to. It looks like fun. And it's good for building a personal brand. But there's something about posting a pithy opinion in < 200 characters that feels smug to me.</i><p>Well, "building a personal brand" is smug in itself, so there's that. Why would people care for/need another "personal brand"?<p>The only way to tweet and not be smug and not be weird / add to the noise is if you feel strong enough that you have something important to say.<p>If you don't, or worry that your opinions are just stuff you grow over, and lose all their value a few years later, then those are just casual thoughts and trivialities. (Something actually important seldom loses its value a few years later).<p>><i>How can I overcome self-consciousness and just tweet without GAF? Or am I doing the right thing and the people who tweet 100x/day are actually the weird ones?</i><p>I'd say the latter...