I’m starting to realize that I’m just “twittered out.”  Recent events seem to have proven this to me.  Looking back at the twitter conversation that started off all of these posts, it just seems like the conversation was akin to us all walking into a room and just talking at each other, not even pausing for each other to respond.  It seems like none of us, including myself, were really listening to each other.  I would say this only strengthens my point that Twitter should not be used for conversations.  Using it for purely IM purposes (such as “@mwalters want to hang out tonight?”) is just downright silly in my opinion.   However, I don’t really have the energy to back my point up any further then I have in the past.

Because of this, if you’d like to engage me in conversation, I give you these options:

• Call me
• eMail me
• Send me a letter via USPS – promise I’ll respond in kind
• Send me a txt
• Send me an IM
• Write a blog post and send me a link to it (using one of the above methods)

However, please do not:

• Send me a tweet
• Send me a brightkite tweet
• Send me a plurk tweet
• Send me some other micro-blogging service tweet

If you do, I’m no longer going to respond in any fashion.  And if I’m currently following you and you do it too much with others, I’m probably going to unfollow you.  Sorry, but it really annoys me.  Twitter already has a signal vs noise issue without being used as an IM service for me.  It’s time for me to “put my money where my mouth is.”