Since my night in Twitter jail, I have been much less active on the service. I only use Tweetdeck to read a handful of private lists, unlike the old days where I really did read everything that everyone I followed tweeted.

Several things ruined Twitter for me, starting with the shift to 280 characters. The 140 character limit forced people to be thoughtful and clever when constructing a tweet, which is not the case with 280. The introduction of an RT button was also a problem, though the worst thing is injecting tweets into your stream that someone you follow *liked.*

I paid a Russian programmer a handsome sum to build a custom Twitter client for me which stripped out all of the nonsense and made the stream readable again, but Twitter quickly banned it and I took the large loss (the Russian programmer made out well, lol).

Anyway, I’m using Discord more and more now, esp. with different groups of day trading buddies, and have shifted away from Twitter. I think everyone else who trades for a living already did this years ago, but I’m slow to change.

Here’s the home screen of my phone now. Is it possible that I’ll stop using Twitter completely one day? Probably not, though I read next to nothing there now. I still like to talk to myself on there throughout the day, mostly tweeting random nonsense and things that amuse me (and no one else); I’ve never once thought about my “audience.”