Ditching Twitter - Incisive.nu
incisive.nu/2014/ditching-twitter
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Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
I called it my rosary, the thing I reached for when I felt anxious, after Metafilter stopped serving that purpose. As Twitter expanded and my own little slice of it grew as well, I called it my front porch and defended its quirks and downsides. But now the magic has turned, in ways that have felt irrevocable. I’m not angry at Twitter for changing, but I’ve been sad to feel that something so oddly entwined with my intellectual and emotional life is now beyond my use.