Bye Bye Twitter

After days, weeks, months and probably even years I’ve finally deleted my Twitter account. I’ve been @tontowilliams there since 2007 when twitter used SMS to broadcast messages.

In many ways I am gutted to have deleted my account. However, I have not been using the platform for many months and prior to that I was at best a sporadic Tweeter.

I am still on the socials though. Probably the one that I am most active on is Instagram where I am also @tontowilliams but I am also on Blue Sky and Mastodon although my presence on the latter two is infrequent at best.

I am of course also here, but if you are receiving this or have found it online you’ll know just how regular these communications are. (There might be an end of the year post coming soon, but I make no promises).

Quitting Twitter is of course everyones personal choice and there are many good reasons why people feel the need to remain there. My presence there is not really a good reason so I’ve left. I don’t want to continue to support the individual who now owns the site. It’s that simple.

I made many good friends on Twitter and I hope that I won’t loose touch with them, some will hopefully read this. If that’s you then do reach out I would like to stay in touch.

Not What I’d Planned

I’d sat down to write this morning.  I had a short story half-planned in my head.  Then I had a twitter exchange with Alex (@lx69), about the nature in our respective localities.

This all started a thought process and then a memory of one of @tontosgirl’s tweets.  The output of all of that is below.

Green and pleasant,

Until concrete and tarmac,

Full of description and wonder,

Until a greater need is perceived.

 

Once, intricate and vast,

Complex and marvellous,

Now, fragmented and fallen,

Reduced and Submitted.

 

Home to thousands,

Destroyed by the one,

Granted protection and promise,

All false and all failed.

 

Loves false promise fulfilled,

Bit by bit, the one will become none,

Still time, still hope?