In my part 1 of My Great Social Media Purge of 2019 i outlined my objectives with assessing my use case of each social media platform I use. I am starting off with Twitter.
I surprisingly find value in using Twitter. I only ever post to twitter to share links to my blog. My reasoning is my blog is public anyway. At this moment I do not believe there is a downside to the linkage of my blog to my twitter account. I may come to regret that however for now I am ok with that linkage. I do have lists of peoples twitter accounts that i follow. Mainly i look at FinTech companies twitter accounts. Some security journalists and a few tech industry people. I also will look at a few comedian’s or The Onion. Even that information starts to build a profile on me. The limited amount of value there I am ok with.
Other uses for Twitter have been in the past I found huge value in having a list to track emergency management accounts. When i was in a pure operations role that came in very handy when Hurricane Sandy hit. Or when a few other big snow storms hit NY. Some of that linkage i am not happy with however that linkage would exist if i followed some of these companies or twitter accounts via Twitter or if i used an RSS feed.
As I wrote this post I unfollowed a bunch of people and friends who never post. What is left i am happy enough with. I think i will have to revisit Twitter again in the future however for now i am ok to keep using it the way i do. I may limit my usage (again) to a secured VM).
Verdict, for now a Keep.