I just deleted all my tweets save three paintings I did. I used Twitter for a bit more than a year, but concluded that its ok as a news/gossip feed, but the interactions I had were sparse and without depth. I also realized that I would get responses from my most edgy or opinionated tweets, which made me more likely to be edgy or opinionated.
I saw your tweet considering the value of twitter. I didn't have a good response for you. I have always used Twitter for thoughts that I wanted to vent but didn't think were purposeful enough to share with actual deliberate people. Either that, or were so shallow or snarky I didn't want them "out there" (a la facebook). My profile tagline is, "most of these are drunk," which has been more and less accurate over the years, for sure -- but the point of that kind of tagline is primarily, now, to discourage anyone who might read my feed from taking it very seriously at all. As a result, though I remain on twitter, I absolutely don't defend it as a bastion of intellectual or even invigorating thought at all. I find most value in it for purely social uses -- that is, I find more value from following friends' tweets and seeing what inane things they have to say and vice versa -- and I certainly don't mean to apply that just because I find the "most value" out of that piece of Twitter doesn't mean it is truly a very valuable component. In other words, I almost support you leaving... ;)
Thanks for the feedback. I suspect that if my account was pseudoanonymous I would feel differently about it. I considered an account with a handle, but don't have enough motivation to finding out if it is satisfying for me. I'm glad that I tried Twitter, however. It made my views of social networks a bit more nuanced. I do think I will post my paintings to Twitter as I complete them, but nothing else. At a minimum, it will give me an inventory and a timeline.
It's pretty hard to have in depth interactions when the amount of characters you're limited to are good for, at best, pithy statements and responses. Any conversation, no matter the topic, needs room for exploration.the interactions I had were sparse and without depth