# My own reasons for leaving Twitter – A Whole Lotta Nothing

<https://a.wholelottanothing.org/2018/08/13/my-own-reasons-for-leaving-twitter/>

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## What Jamie wrote

I could have written this post. The constant stream of data from Twitter was, for me, highly addictive. I've never had a service that was so hard for me to leave, and I still have not left it entirely. I also experienced the negative impact to blogging from using Twitter.

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