19/11/2023
FIFTY ONE THOUSAND, THREE HUNDRED.
51,300.
That's how many tweets I've sent since I joined Twitter in July 2007.
At a rough 140 characters per tweet (the character limit changed a few years ago, but bear with me), that's 7,182,000 characters.
According to the first result on Google, the average English word is 4.7 characters long.
So that's 1,528,085 words.
The average typing speed is 40wpm.
Which puts my time on Twitter over the last 16 years at about 38,202 minutes.
That's 636 hours.
Or roughly the equivalent of 90 working days.
At freelancer rates of £350 a day that's £31,500 of my time spent typing things onto someone else's platform.
At £450 a day it's £40,500 of my time giving someone else my content.
And now Twitter is...well...a bit s**t, isn't it?
Lack of reach, low interaction, not much traffic being generated to my site, fewer new clients incoming, AI taking over, bits being added I don't want, bits being taken away I actually quite liked, yada, yada, yada.
Imagine if I'd spent those 38,000 minutes creating content on my website that I owned, that would perform well in Google, that couldn't be taken away from me at the whim of a social media platform owner...
Makes you think...
