On contemplating quitting Twitter

Here is Matt Glassman considering quitting Twitter and Bluesky. I'm on Twitter a whole lot less than I used to be. First: I still call it "Twitter." Force of habit, and I like the old name better. I am as always speaking only for myself. A few miscellaneous notes: The excellent Alex Komoroske maintains a "Bits and Bobs" Google doc; this is a roughly time-ordered series of Tweet-length observations, in outline structure. This strikes me as a great alternative to putting short-form material on any social media platform. (One of my main use cases for such platforms is that I sometimes want to say publicly, but would feel silly making a blog posts for, things like "Why don't college soccer teams bring their keepers up when they're taking corner kicks with seven seconds left?") Patrick McKenzie still posts things that (i) are useful and (ii) I can't (to my knowledge) get elsewhere. He's not the only one. As Matt notes, Twitter is worse as a way to reach people, and much worse as a way to…