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Discussion on: Why Twitter?

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Ben Halpern

I think a basic understanding of Twitter culture and half an ear towards the important conversations is useful. Basically, you shouldn't be completely in the dark about what kinds of things Twitter is used for in our space.

But besides that I find it is a time suck and a bad habit. I got really into Twitter for a while, started this whole project on Twitter. But I don't think it's conducive to good, healthy, constructive dialogue and is more of an addictive dopamine rush with some nice social connecting mixed in.

The whole dev.to project in the first place was myself coming around to how much I didn't want to be spending time on Twitter, but didn't want to miss out on the good parts of connecting with other devs.