Nows and Forevers

I for the most part dropped Twitter several months ago, and after a little bit of withdrawal, I was OK. But what little I had finally dropped me this week.
I didn’t post much, but I still liked to look at Tweetdeck. As a journalist, I liked the all-encompassing view, and the up-to-date vitality at the way the world was going and how people were feeling about it.
Twitter is an important source in breaking news.
Then, a few weeks ago, Tweetdeck started timing out after a few minutes. Too many Tweets, it said. Subscribe, it said. Or come back tomorrow.
Eventually, I just shut it down after two days of that.
Then Tuesday, after a long weekend away, I cut it out for good. I had to. I got a screen that said I needed to subscribe to get access to Tweetdeck. I noticed I wasn’t the only one, not from Twitter itself but from an article in The Washington Post.
I am so not going to subscribe.
I’ll miss Tweetdeck, because I thought it was helpful. But I can’t see subscribing. It’s not that helpful.