As I have indicated, effective July 1, I am taking an indefinite hiatus from daily Twitterbombing after my last dispatch on June 30. Given the reactions this announcement elicited, I felt that some clarification and context was necessary.

First and foremost, I am not quitting Twitter.  I am not deleting my account.  No Twittercide in a blaze of glory.  "You must chill! I've hidden your keys!" Second, no one is running me off or shutting me down. This is all by my own volition and free will (to the extent the same exists in this quantum universe). The fact of the matter is that my Twitterbombing efforts are starting to feel more like work and less like fun, and I do want Twitter to be fun for me and for anyone who follows me.

The same thing happened with Follow Friday. Now, not to self-fellate, but I had some of the most awesome Follow Friday blasts that I have ever seen. I would give people specific reasons why other followers were awesome and worthy of a follow. However, when it would take me over two hours to do a Follow Friday "correctly" by my standards (and all of this was done on the fly--no lists or notes ahead of time), and when I would be physically exhausted when I was done, I decided that it was time to move on.

Anyway, the Twitterbombing is heading in the same direction. One of my favorite things about Twitter is the randomness. I never write shit out in advance. I do not have a "drafts folder". Even my Twitterbomb runs reflect my instantaneous reaction to memes and other goodies from the Internet via my RSS reader. Seriously, if I do not have a quip come to mind in one or two seconds, I move on to the next item.

Of late, I feel like I am heading for a rut with the Twitterbombing. I hate ruts. Work can be a rut, and I do not need one of my escapes from a rut to become another rut of a different color. And my fear is that if I allow this to become a rut, I will overreact in an inelegant and obtuse manner. On top of that, the Twitterbombing has become so time consuming that I have had less time to interact with people. I guess I am engaging in anti-social media. Anyway, I would like to spend a larger share of whatever "computer time" I have interacting with others and creating new media.

Further, I do not know if there is much more that I can do to evolve the derivative hack art form that I call Twitterbombing. I think the time has come to pass the mantle and look for new challenges. I believe that I have "done Twitter" differently than anyone else I know (whether that is a positive or a negative, I shall let the vox populi be the judge). Maybe I have maxed out my potential for this art form. Maybe this art form is inherently finite in its limits. Maybe I am just bored. As Lou Reed said, "Everybody gets bored with somebody sometimes....."

So what does the future hold? I am still considering doing periodic Twitterbombing runs. Maybe something like a weekly or bi-weekly or monthly best of the best of the Internet (for the record, I was doing this LONG before WebSoup or Tosh.0); I'll have a better idea after the July 4th weekend. I am going to put more effort into producing longer original pieces here on my Posterous. And I have started a Tumblr (it is quite easy to find, but @ or DM me if you have an issue or are really lazy) for more of the media/interaction/too-long-for-Twitter-too-short-for-a-blog stuff. Please note that my Tumblr will not automatically cross-post to my Twitter.

Thank you all for tuning in to my programming. I know these lineup changes were unexpected, but I hope you will stick around for the ride so that we can see where this all goes.