Artificial ignorance

I don’t twitter. Millions have asked me for my twitter handle. Millions. Yet, I stick with the simple philosophical reason that no one cares and that’s why I don’t twitter.

Why I don’t twitter

1. No one cares enough to read through dozens and dozens of updates. People don’t care enough about my life to want to know what I’m doing (all the time).
2. I don’t care enough to want to let the world know what I’m doing (all the time). Look at my last few facebook status updates, for example. Just rubbish.
   
3. I don’t have relevant breaking news that I want to share with the internet. Or my internet friends. Or my supposed twitter friends. I would share breaking news via SMS. If it’s internet worthy, I’ll blog it.
4. I find blogging to be good enough.
5. In the last year or so, Twitter has gone down several times. Apparently there’s even a site dedicated to figuring twitter’s up/down status : http://istwitterdown.com/.
   

Why I think people Twitter Continue reading