{"id":3988,"date":"2018-02-20T22:21:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T22:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/?p=3988"},"modified":"2018-02-20T22:21:56","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T22:21:56","slug":"antisocial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2018\/02\/20\/antisocial\/","title":{"rendered":"Antisocial"},"content":{"rendered":"
In the Indieweb<\/a> spirit<\/a> of owning and hosting all of my stuff on my own website I\u2019ve uploaded a copy of my Twitter archive here<\/a>. You can now go and view, and search, all of my 30,000-odd random thoughts from the past decade or so without leaving this website.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve had a feeling for a while that I haven\u2019t been using Twitter as much as I used to a couple of years back. The \u2018index graph\u2019 that comes as part of the download package seemed to confirm this, but what was stark for me was exactly how long ago I really was a \u2018heavy\u2019 user. Things seem to tail off after 2011, a couple of years after I started.<\/p>\n

(This fits with the general pattern of me getting older and thinking that \u2018most things\u2019 happened a couple of years ago whereas actually they took place much further back. \u201cOh, Ronnie Barker died a few years ago.\u201d Yes, 13<\/em> years ago<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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I thought it would be interesting to take the monthly statistical data (it\u2019s in a .js file in the Twitter download) and see exactly how much my usage had declined by plotting it in a proper chart. Here\u2019s where I got a second shock. If you follow the trend line from mid-2010 this is pretty much the exact point where my usage bisects zero:<\/p>\n

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I have such fond memories. Back in the day I made some lovely friends, had interesting discussions about all kinds of topics, organised Tweetups<\/a>, and generally had a great time. I even had good conversations aboutwork<\/a> \u2014 Twitter and it\u2019s wonderful hive mind had utility. But it became exhausting. Fear of missing out meant that I didn\u2019t unfollow people unless there was really no value in what someone had to say. I gave up on trying to keep up with my main timeline and switched to using lists<\/a>, one for the Technology folk I was interested in following closely<\/a> and another (private) one for my friends, family and anyone else I didn\u2019t want to miss. I also had the odd one here and there for when something was blowing up in the financial markets<\/a> or Formula 1<\/a> and I wanted an up-to-date commentary. But even that was too much. I don\u2019t know how much of it was a change in me or a change in the place itself<\/a>, but I can\u2019t find the energy for it anymore.<\/p>\n

I still add people to my follow list quite liberally, as I know I\u2019m not actually going to read their tweets. These days my Twitter feed is used as input for Nuzzel<\/a> which notifies me when articles get shared by more than five people in my timeline.<\/p>\n

Life seems a lot healthier with longer form content of blogging, reading and more considered discussions. The time I used to spend reading my timeline is now instead spent in the Kindle app or going through blog posts in Feedbin<\/a>\/Reeder<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are still lots of people I admire who seem to get a lot of value out of Twitter and still be productive and do great work, but I don\u2019t feel like I can be one of them in any meaningful way.<\/p><\/div>\n

In the Indieweb spirit of owning and hosting all of my stuff on my own website I\u2019ve uploaded a copy of my Twitter archive here. You can now go and view, and search, all of my 30,000-odd random thoughts from the past decade or so without leaving this website. 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