Q&A: How do you use Twitter? Do you check in for an hour at night, or periodically thoughout the day, or something else?

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After catching up with the overnight reply backlog in the morning, I check in for a couple minutes here and there throughout the day, usually whenever I close the loop on some long or cognitively taxing step of some task I’m working on.

But when I’m checking in, my focus is less on consuming and more on finding content that inspires me to produce my own content. And whenever I get into the flow of writing a post or lengthy response that I think is interesting and can turn into a blog post or book passage or FAQ item (or extend an existing one), I allow myself more time to finish it. This happens very frequently, which is why I keep coming back to check in.

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