{"id":9568522,"date":"2010-01-07T06:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T06:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amichetti.posterous.com\/how-does-your-twitter-garden-grow"},"modified":"2010-01-07T06:52:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T06:52:00","slug":"how-does-your-twitter-garden-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/apropos\/2010\/01\/07\/how-does-your-twitter-garden-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"How does your Twitter Garden Grow?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve had way too much time on my hands this holiday. Three weeks in Texas at your parents’ place will do that to you! Anyway, I spent a lot of this extra time online, which is no big surprise if you know me even a teensy bit. (For the record, I also did a lot of other offline things<\/a>, like go to live music shows<\/a>, organize my mother’s recipe cards, play Wii, and sit in the hottub. I’m just sayin’…) And the more time I spent on Twitter this holiday, the more I felt like things were too noisy, too unfocused, and rather ADHD-ish. It was bothering me. I gradually, here and there, began unfollowing people who were tweeting weird things like 8 Follow Fridays in a row, play-by-plays of the latest college basketball game, and judgmentalish-sounding tweets about veganism and charter schools. I became irritated by the flow of re-tweets of very simple, basic educational \/ pedagogical concepts, originally tweeted by some Big Name Important People in Ed Tech who just happen to have 3 jillion followers because they present regularly at the latest ISTE \/ EDUCAUSE \/ IFTA \/ InsertAcronymHERE Conference. It’s not the idea of a re-tweet or the pedagogical concept itself is what’s bothering me, but that 3 jillion followers get so crazy about something so simple — something that I feel really should be a given, not really re-tweetworthy. Basically, I was getting Twitteritis: my Twitterstream was inflamed, throbbing, and needed attention. <\/p>\n

After a couple of days, I realized what I really needed to do was a complete overhaul of my Twitterstream. I was gonna need to unfollow the masses. <\/p>\n

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