Deleting My Twitter

27K tweets and 13 years of fleeting thoughts down the drain. Good riddance.

27,324. That’s how many tweets I’d spat out since joining Twitter in July 2011. 13 years spent thinking (at various degrees of seriousness) that every fleeting thought I had should be captured and dispersed to thousands of strangers. Looking back at it now, I see Twitter in three phases: The Age Of Innocence (2006-2015), The Age of Enlightenment (2016-2021), The Dark Ages (2022-Present). During phase one, Twitter was both a thought depository and a town square. It also played a critical role in eroding the middle space between famous folks and non-celebrities. Back in those days, celebrities tweeted with the same kind of abandon and thoughtlessness as we did.

But then came Enlightenment.