Orphan Tweets: People who sign up for Twitter, post once, then never return. This is much more interesting than it sounds.
Orphan Tweets
– June 10, 2009
Orphan Tweets: People who sign up for Twitter, post once, then never return. This is much more interesting than it sounds.
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Richard Clark (Co-Founder/Editor-in-Chief) has spent his entire life writing, reading, listening, and playing. He has a Bachelors in Theology from the Baptist College of Florida and has a Master of Arts in Theology and the Arts from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He lives in Louisville, KY where he is the classroom technology manager at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. In addition to writing at Christ and Pop Culture, he is also a staff writer for Kill Screen Magazine's website and has written for various other outlets such as Paste, Gamasutra, and Collide.
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I quit for entirely selfish reasons. I was tired of contributing to something that wasn’t contributing back. I wrote 234 (which includes my finale: Hey Twitter! You’re incredibly boring! Goodbye ^_^), had some followers I guess, and followed more people than I cared to.
Only one Twitter ever made me glad I was following any Twitters. Merlin Mann consistently provided short humourous pieces that rarely failed to make me laugh. But really, i have enough humour in my life, so it’s not like I was depending upon Twitter to make life funny. And okay, actually, I suppose Neil Gaiman also held some small value because I 1) learned the government was causing all the illustrated children’s books pre-like-1980 to be destroyed, and 2) got an article out of one of his Tweets. But apart from Merlin and two posts by Gaiman, two months of Twitter netted me nothing really.
I do think its a viable platform for communication (especially certain kinds of communication), but I just wasn’t experiencing any value. So there you go.
The Danes last blog post..20090417.teaParty
I am one of those who tweeted once and never returned