Observations On My 5 Year Anniversary on Twitter—The Best and the Worst of Times

It’s hard to believe five years ago today I began this Twitter journey. It’s one of those paradoxes in time that seems longer and shorter than it really is—all at the same time.

Five years.

A lot has happened in five years, both good and bad.

Jan. 8, 2007

As of today I have 42,134 followers and I have written19,179 updates. My following roughly equals a city the size of Dublin, California and if I spent 15 seconds on each update, I have invested (or burned) eighty hours of my life. About two w...