I left Twitter today

I joined Twitter to promote my blog and engage with other writers. Turns out, this wasn’t the platform for me. As one person put it, Twitter is all about “dunking and being dunked upon.” I was successful in staying above the fray, and maybe that’s why I called an end to the experiment with only 8 followers. That’s fine if I’m just there to have fun, but I won’t be growing a brand that way.

I should have looked at what types of behavior the platform rewards and if it was a good fit for my personality. Instead, I went there because I’d been there before - it was familiar. I was being lazy.

Bottom line is that promotion is the hardest part of writing for me. It’s uncomfortable. Still, I’m not practicing my craft to leave my writing in the proverbial drawer. There is a way forward, on a platform where I can better leverage my own personality traits and skills. I don’t know what that platform is, but I do know that it isn’t Twitter.