Along with posting more often on my own blog, I’ve also been trying to get back in the habit of reading others’ blogs more regularly. I followed a link recently to my old friend and colleague Daphne Chong’s site. I really loved her “Ode to Twitter”, especially this bit:

I feel a surprising pang thinking about Twitter going away, even though I don’t actively post on it today. There is more than a decade of me catalogued – a lot of my professional growth, and serendipitous connections. Even now, I can’t get some of that back…

Looking back on the thousands of tweets I imported over the weekend, I know exactly what she means. It was a big part of my life for a long time, and I’m sad that it ended the way it did.