Twitip

Tweeting is a fun hobby and nobody denies that. Through Twitter you can meet new people and learn from them. You can make some really good connections and do much more than just chatting.

The side effect of using Twitter: It totally grows on you. At first it is fun to get to meet new people from various backgrounds and bond with them, but after some time you are more into tweeting useful content so that it pleases your followers. And it turns into a vicious circle where you seem to get trapped. The harmless past time turns to harmful addiction!

How is Twitter harmful?

Many of you would ask me the same question as they still believe that Twitter is harmless. Yes, it is harmless to an extent but after a limit it can take total control over your life. I am a blogger by hobby and I am also a college student. It is very difficult to manage the two responsibilities. And on top of it, I have to manage a very active Twitter account, which is really difficult for me. My studies and blogging have been greatly affected by excessive twitter usage. The only solution for me to get control of my time, was to get out of this Twitter addiction and I did get out of it.

When you start tweeting excessively, you lose on valuable time and this time could have been used for learning a new art or for building credibility or for having quality time with your friends and family. This is my point: If you are a Twitter user, who is using Twitter for more than six hours then you should seriously consider de-addicting yourself (actually six hours is also very high).

Now, de-addiction is a very difficult task and requires a lot of willpower. Twitter De-Addiction is a little different from other de-addiction techniques, because I am not asking you stop tweeting but I am only asking you to slow your pace.

You need to follow these steps to completely de-addict yourself from twitter:

Start Moderating

Like any addiction, you cannot just stop abruptly, you need to phase out. If your Twitter frequency is of 500 tweets a day, then you can start decreasing your frequency slowly and slowly to a frequency which keeps you active on Twitter but it does not hog on to your time.

Schedule Tweets

If you have an hour, but you still want to tweet something valuable, then scheduling tweets is a good option for you. Scheduling should be done very carefully, as the tweets will be published when you will not be online. So, the tweets should be free from any broken links or any other kind of junk. Best method to ensure that your tweets are good is by reading each and every article and making sure that it adds value to your Twitter stream. If you have any queries about scheduling tweets, you can see what people think about scheduling tweets.

By scheduling, you easily cut on time. You can schedule tweets for the whole day in just an hour’s time and hence save a lot of time.

Follow Simple Ways to Engage

Engagement can take minutes or hours or even days. It totally depends on you. You can decrease the engagement time by replying only to all the direct messages and mentions by your followers. Do not get entangled in some random chat!

Stop Caring About Followers

Don’t care too much about your followers (That doesn’t mean that they are not important). Because that will just psyche you out. They completely understand if you don’t tweet regularly. They know you are human and you have a life and you have to earn a living to maintain it. Once you will keep this fact in mind, it will be a lot easier to de-addict yourself.

If you care a lot about them, then make an announcement about it. Let your followers know that you wouldn’t be that active.

Keep the Rest for Weekends

If you love to tweet and interact, then make it a weekend thing. You should follow the steps listed above on weekdays and once you have a day off, you can always resume to your normal tweeting style. This can kill two birds with one stone. First, less tweeting in weekdays will buy you time for your work and other important stuff and secondly, tweeting freely on weekends can satisfy your need to tweet and interact with your friends and followers.

Just Close Everything

You have tried everything that I have mentioned above and it is still not working for you. Then you have only one option. Close your internet browser or twitter apps. Even better technique would be to shut down your computer or laptop. This would give you a break from the online world and it may possibly act as a breather that you might terribly need.

What is your opinion on Twitter addiction? Have you found yourself feeling addicted yet? Have you tried to stop it?