Twitter (Again)

In case anyone is wondering how my Twitter experiment went... I'm finished. I only lasted a couple weeks, and that took considerable intentionality. I'm still baffled by why people like Twitter. It's a time sink that added nothing of value to my life.

Several colleagues told me that Twitter is valuable for swapping links, but I think it's terribly inefficient for that purpose. I sift through so much information each day--from newspapers, blogs, think tanks, etc--that I need a rapid way to assess articles and decide which ones are worth my time. Most Tweets use short URLs so you have no idea what the link is, and there isn't enough space to include a good cleartext description. You also can't categorize or group links. News summaries like the Early Bird or link roundups on sites like SWJ or Global Guerrillas are far more useful.