Why can't I tweet?

Question

I have a personal twitter account with around 2k followers. But I haven't tweeted in over a year. I really kind of want to. It looks like fun. And it's good for building an audience. But there's something about posting a pithy opinion in < 200 characters that feels smug to me. More than that, I guess, is the feeling of permanence with every opinion. There's not been a time that I haven't looked back on something I said or wrote x number years ago without thinking, wow, I was an absolute moron.How can I overcome self-consciousness and just tweet without GAF? Or am I doing the right thing and the people who tweet 100x/day are actually the weird ones?

coldtea · Accepted Answer

>I really kind of want to. It looks like fun. And it's good for building a personal brand. But there's something about posting a pithy opinion in < 200 characters that feels smug to me.Well, "building a personal brand" is smug in itself, so there's that. Why would people care for/need another "personal brand"?The only way to tweet and not be smug and not be weird / add to the noise is if you feel strong enough that you have something important to say.If you don't, or worry that your opinions are just stuff you grow over, and lose all their value a few years later, then those are just casual thoughts and trivialities. (Something actually important seldom loses its value a few years later).>How can I overcome self-consciousness and just tweet without GAF? Or am I doing the right thing and the people who tweet 100x/day are actually the weird ones?I'd say the latter...

cjbprime · Answer

You could set up a script to delete each tweet two years after it's posted?