As regular readers may or may not recall, I recently quit Twitter. My reasons for doing so were legion but one of the biggest was the fact that, as someone whose job it is to write about himself, I?d noticed that Twitter had adversely affected my ability to work. Not because it was distracting - which it was - but mainly because I realised that since joining Twitter I realised I?d all but stopped writing my blog.
When I wrote my previous book, back in 2008, my blog archives proved a really useful way to go back and fact-check my recollection of events, not to mention double-checking exactly dates and times of my travels. When it came time to write the next book, though, I was slightly alarmed to discover my Twitter archive mainly furnished me with 2300 (of the 10,000+ I?d actually written) micro-notes packed with some useful insights as ?heading out to buy eggs? and "Just saw a man nearly getting hit by a car", not to mention a couple of hundred context-free OH?s, none of which was attributed.
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