A few weeks ago I got tired of listening in on people engaging in random public chatter so I set a target of twenty people to follow. It’s not that I have anything against using Twitter as IRC, its just that trying to keep track of what was happening became too frustrating. To add to that, on the odd occasion when I really feel like tweeting, the service is either having technical problems or my clients can’t connect.

So I ended up with twenty people I follow and then I got to see half of an IRC channel because I wasn’t following the other people involved in these conversations.

Then the breakthrough happened – Nic Haralambous took up the desk next to me and he started feeding me the daily highlights, so I could finally stop following everyone and go back to basics – Twitter became just a presence announcement system.

But then Matthew Buckland decided to play a game of chicken with me by telling me he didn’t think I had the guts to leave Twitter completely, so I did, today at 16:11 SAST. It feels great.