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Why I Unfollowed You On Twitter

laidnyc
March 21, 2014

Twitters a helluva drug.

Writing cool quips that get instantly rewarded with favorites, retweets and replies is addicting.  Getting tricked into thinking you have 1000 friends to talk to all day is deceiving.  Add to that the fact that there are tons of smart guys out there in the manosphere and dark enlightenment constantly providing new information and jokes so you never get bored for more than 30 seconds.  You get linked to articles with information you already know and confirm for yourself how smart you are. It’s tough to look away.

But when I got disappointed because I forget to bring my smartphone into the bathroom with me to take a dump, I knew I had to cull my social media usage.  This has been spoken about before.  Roosh.  Frost.

But twitter has provided me some value.  There is good info on there, so I wasn’t about to coldturkey it (yet).  I needed a smart way to scale it back.

So, I noticed two things:

First, a handful of guys are not only smart, they are excellent retweeters.  I could unfollow 60-70% of the people on my list and still get their best tweets retweeted to me.

Second:  You can subscribe to LISTS.  People aggregate tweets from a group of similar people on a shared timeline.  You can glance at one of these and extract all the twitter value you need in about 3 minutes without feeling the need to read every last tweet like you do when you are following someone.

Here are a few lists I recommend:

Dark Enlightenment
Reaction
Red Pill
Manosphere

So, with those two points in mind, I did a slash and burn of my followers, deleting about 200 of them.  I left the landmark guys, guys I actually interact with, and the best retweeters.  If you were among those deleted, its nothing personal.  I probably still read your blog, but you can unfollow me out of spite if you want.  Since you may not be able to send me a DM anymore, feel free to send me an email at laidnyc at gmail.

My plan is that instead of flipping over to my twitter feed every time I’m bored, I’m going to try to only check it twice a day, for ten minutes at most.  Popcorn Brain must die.

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Title Why I Unfollowed You On Twitter
Author laidnyc
Date March 21, 2014 8:00 AM UTC (10 years ago)
Blog LaidNYC
Archive Link https://theredarchive.com/blog/LaidNYC/why-i-unfollowed-you-ontwitter.56681
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Original Link http://laidnyc.wordpress.com/2014/03/21/why-i-unfollowed-you-on-twitter
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