What the Twitter-shaped hole in my brain taught me about tech

Twitter-brain is real, and it's only a preview of our augmented-reality future

Twitter brain.
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It's when I do the math that things seem truly worrying. In the approximately 4,500 days since I joined Twitter in March 2007 — that's more than 12 years — I have been on the platform for, oh, almost all of them. Let's say at least 4,450 days. Uh, whoops.

So recently, feeling burnt out and listless, I decided to step away. I was just tired of the endless, bitter acrimony that defines Twitter. Off the app went from my phone and tablet, and I logged out on both my laptop and desktop.

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Navneet Alang

Navneet Alang is a technology and culture writer based out of Toronto. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, New Republic, Globe and Mail, and Hazlitt.