So Hugh “Mr. Gapingvoid” MacLeod late last night declared Twitter harikari and sent his Twitter account into oblivion because in his words “I like Twitter. But I found it too easy.” and in general terms felt his time was better spent elsewhere.
Well you would have thought the world was imploding with everyone jumping in on the inevitable Techmeme steamroller as everyone from TechCrunch with their one paragraph non-comment to the deep and thoughtful Twitter is to blogging what Telegrams were to Airmail post by Ted Rheingold.
I like Hugh and I always paid attention to his messages as they passed by in the Twitter stream but my world isn’t going to come to an end because he made a choice to call it quits. I still read his blog and yes I would feel a twinge of regret if he quit doing that as well but all this nonsense being raised around the fact that one man killed the Twitter bird only goes to show how overblown this whole so-called social media has become.
If myself or any of the many thousand’s of users decided that our day to kill the Twitter bird had come do you think there would even be a burp in the Twitterverse? Not likely. Yet when some-one like Hugh says good-bye everyone starts feeling like they once again have to start justifying why they think Twitter is important.
Guess what - it’s not.
It’s a damn tool that we can pick up at anytime and then when we have finished using it we can put it back down. It’s not the end of the world because someone that three quarters of the blogosphere probably didn’t even know of a year ago wants to spend more time writing his books and drawing his cartoons.
Well all the more power to you Hugh and and like Rex I respect your decision but like Tony Hung I also think given your creative streak you will at some point miss the vast amount of information that flows through the Twitterverse; and as Tony also points out may have been part of what has taken you to the levels of success you are enjoying.
Personally I’ll just look on this as a vacation and at some point you may decide that you need that tool we all call Twitter.
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Well said.
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