I opened Twitter 30+ times a day. Average session: 7 minutes. Per month: ~100 hours.

Reading time, that's four books.

I read three books last year.

Not addiction — design#

Twitter isn't passively eating my time. The whole product is engineered to maximize it.

• Algorithmic feed: there's always a "next"
• Notifications: passive becomes active summons
• Red badges: unread count must never be zero
• Short-form: nothing demands commitment

These aren't bugs. These are KPIs.

What replaced it#

I didn't migrate to a "better social network." I changed the structure:

• Writing → this site. Slow. Long. No instant feedback.
• Reading others → RSS. Smaller follow set, higher quality.
• Communication → email. Slow, async, private.
• Casual chat → small group chats, in-person, phone calls.

Each is much slower than Twitter. That's a feature.

But at least the 100 hours are mine again.

Three months in#

• Read 5 books (vs 3 the year prior)
• Posted 14 essays (vs 2 in the same window)
• Stopped feeling I'd "miss the news" — big stories still reach me within 24 hours

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