Why I didn't delete my Twitter account

Thursday, April 10, 2008 by Dave Winer.

Hugh MacLeod is a great idea provocateur. 

Today he explains why he deleted his Twitter account. 

I love social experiments, and this one is a doozy. There were certain things I found unappealing about Twitter. I didn't like the way a few people were using it. Rather than nuke the whole garden, I just got out the shovel and shears and did some digging and pruning. Cut back a limb here and there, and all of a sudden Twitter works a lot better. For me. 

I didn't delete my Twitter account and I don't plan to because Twitter is a lab where we're creating the next network. As long as I'm still diggin I'm going to want to keep creating. 

But I respect Hugh, and he is part of Twitter even as he withdraws from Twitter.