Tweetme button on my blog is also not giving me retweets.

I am on the same boat as you ajith. But, just continuing it.

I can keep in touch with a ton of my buddies easily with Twitter, if I use IM I would have to ping each one to say Hi, with this, I can jump in between conversations or Retweet some of their tweets to make my presence known. Its like saying, “Hey buddy, am listening too”.

It works for me that way. And after all regarding the twitter privacy, I dont think people tweet really important stuff out there. I think its totally safe if the world finds out that your dog is sick or you have a bad head.

But I agree on one thing, twitter takes away a lot of your time, and the returns (if you don’t count the joy out of tweeting) is not that much.

But the joy is everything for me, lol, so am hooked

I understand your reasons for leaving Twitter. Of course, I’m not leaving Twitter, but I have different reasons.

When I was first on, Twitter drove lots of traffic to my blog. Over time, it hasn’t worked as well, but that’s because the search engines took over, which they weren’t initially doing.

What Twitter does for me is gives me an opportunity to see more information than I ever had before. I’ve also met some people I’d have never had a real opportunity to talk to; not sure if you remember my post on helping Guy Kawasaki edit his book, which occurred because of Twitter.

And it’s a quick way for my friends to contact me, which also works wonders. Just yesterday we had an impromptu local Tweetup to celebrate a friend’s birthday, and have an official one planned on the 3rd. It’s neat meeting people I’ve met on Twitter.

So, those are my reasons for staying. Nothing overly selfish like trying to make money from it, but I do get to advertise some, every blog post still shows, which gives me a link, and I share info as well. Not bad, for the little time I spend there.

Me too have the same opinion, my followers is just 400, clicks are 1-2 per day. i like facebook than twitter.