I quit Twitter on March 20th and it was the best thing I’ve done in a long, long time. The funny thing was that it starts sending you random notifications from

I quit Twitter on March 20th and it was the best thing I’ve done in a long, long time. The funny thing was that it starts sending you random notifications from people you don’t even follow or have the bell on for as a dark pattern to get you to come back. What I realized is — like how I quit reading the news many years ago — everything on Twitter is pointless and ephemeral. From one outrage cycle to the next, never relenting. Everyone always mad about some meaningless minutiae. If it was actually important it would surface by some other means so I never missed anything. Then I’d go outside and everyone’s living their lives like Twitter doesn’t exist. It’s easier to do than you think. Lock your account, turn off notifications for the whole app, and do literally anything else.