Slowly Creeping Back to Twitter. Maybe.

A little over a month ago or so (I’m not curious enough to check), I mused about the possibility of complete abandoning Twitter, or, at the very least, making write-only, meaning I might post to it, but not read it. After posting that, I went at least a month without ever looking at my twitter stream. Literally. It was nice. Now, though, like an addict that is “over” it, I’m trying to decide if I should return.

The problems that drove me, more or less, from active Twitter use are still there, and I’ll be completely honest: part of the problem is me. I don’t think I have a “I have to be right” problem — I’ll admit when I’m wrong if you can prove it to me (and if my self-assessment is wrong, feel free to correct me 😉 — but I do have a “I like to debate” problem. Couple that with all those people that are hopelessly, egregiously wrong out there, and we have a problem, Houston. 🙂 If I am to return, then, I have to fix that problem.

Another problem is that, as much I as I try to avoid it, I find myself tweeting almost anything that comes to mind. There is a filter, of course, but it’s still pretty lenient. No one cares, as I noticed at karate class tonight, that I have ugly feet. Few care how many cups of coffee I’ve had.

Annoying as reading those kinds of tweets are, there’s a more important downside: the important things I do happen to tweet don’t get the treatment some of them deserve. Since my self-imposed twitter exile began, I’ve blogged more. Not that I’ve blogged a lot in terms of raw numbers, but I’ve blogged about more (frequently) than since I joined twitter, and I don’t want to kill that nascent momentum, as that’s one of my complaints about twitter: 140 characters of half-complete (it that) thoughts. This, too, will take some self-discipline,which is, in many ways, one of my weaknesses, so we’ll see how that works out.

For now, though, we’ll see how limited Twitter usage works. Hopefully, my signal-to-noise ratio will be better, and I’l continue to fully flesh out thoughts in one of my many blogging sites rather than take a quick and easy out on Twitter. Dilligence, I think, is the name game. Let’s see if I have what it takes.