Today I promised myself I wouldn’t visit Twitter a single time. It’s 15.30 and so far I’m doing well – I haven’t touched Tweetdeck or hit twitter.com! Lately I’ve found the whole experience more stressful than positive. I’m a little fed-up of the tiny attention span the so-called “Twittersphere” has when it comes to major news stories or political issues. Certain characters in my Twitter circle irritate me regularly and I will have to start looking at what I want to get out of the platform and if the way I use it should change. The 24/7 flow of tiny tid-bits of information and uninformed, nuance-free opinion drive me nuts! And the widely held opinion that Twitter is the sole answer to the online political communication needs of the political class is an empty theory which hasn’t yet been proved.

Twitter makes us all lazy and completely hooked on a non-stop stream of crumbs of information. Those of us who could be classes as addicts (myself included) should all have a day a week when we resolve not to use it at all!