Nows and Forevers

About an hour into my workday, I got a Tweetdeck notice for the first time:

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And:

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Just another new Twitter experience. Everything on my Tweetdeck columns went blank, also the first time that’s happened. I went back an hour later and the same thing happened.

I don’t post on Twitter anymore, but I do keep it going for work. A journalist should keep as many streams as possible open, no matter how painful that can be sometimes. But until today, I never got this notice.

It’s been a long time (since April) that I posted anything on social media other than LinkedIn. I don’t have social media on my iPhone either, and I don’t scroll when I’m home. Tweetdeck in the hours I’m in front of my computer at work was the last vestige of my one-time social media fixation.

Looks like that’s going away, too. Because I’m not going to subscribe.