It was just a matter of time.
With more than 200 friends on Twitter, my text message notifications got out of control.
I got more than 1500 notifications by SMS in the last week. Too many to keep up with (and still less than Jason Calcanis before he turned off his SMS notifications).
To deal with the inundation of text messages, at first I turned off phone buzzing for SMS. There was no way to turn off phone buzzing just for Twitter, so I turned off phone alerts for everything.
As a result, Joyce said that she could no longer text me with important stuff, because there was no indication I would look at the text message in a timely manner (since my phone was no longer buzzing when it received a message).
So that solution didn't work. I needed to escalate.
So I've turned off Twitter.
And now that I've turned off Twitter, I can turn my phone buzz notifications-when-I-get-SMS back on.
But I still want to keep track of my Twitterfriends. What to do, what to do.
Enter Google reader. I can now read my Twitter friends feed in an RSS reader. And Google reader is so much more usable than I remember when I first tried it. As Zwoddy said, b'bye Bloglines. (Doubleplus good: I can add Renkoo feeds, too.)
Bloglines is to Google Reader, as Typepad is to Wordpress.
I now go to Google Reader and Wordpress everyday. Bloglines and Typepad, once a month.
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