Re: twitter… GIven my recent conversion to twitter, and rapid ascension to ‘addict’ (i.e. check it more than facebook), I’ve been considering the ‘Hugh McLeod’ approach in the last couple of days; i.e. giving it up cold turkey.

I’m finding it *extremely* distracting, mostly self-indulgent, and highly-polarised (it’s full of people like exactly me, rather than nicely rounded people who don’t harp-on about copyright, APIs and social media). In fact, it could be dangerously misleading, like reading Slashdot as your daily newspaper.

Do you not think it’s a passing phase, and in 3 months, you’ll have forgotten about it (if nothing else, because of the energy it takes to participate)? Or do you honestly think it’s going to be a long-term part of your toolkit (whether for networking, PR, comms, news, or some other purpose)?