[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.]
My original 30-day Twitter #hiatus period ended last night at midnight (although the extended #sequester continues), and the final count is 823 tweets – 590 of them during the Boston/West/Ricin “Week From Hell” last month, 233 during the other 25 days.
You may laugh at a so-called “hiatus” that involves almost 20 tweets per day on average, and more than 9 per day even excluding the Week From Hell, but this was my most successful hiatus (or sequester) ever. Keep in mind that my long-term average is 115 tweets per day. So, yeah. #winning! 😉
Speaking of #winning, the #HiatusPool champion is Dan Dinunzio, whose guess of 777 tweets (the 8th-highest prediction among the 39 contestants) was just slightly closer to the actual number of tweets than Kenny Ocker’s 874. Dinunzio was 46 tweets off; Ocker, 51 off. Ocker probably would have won, except that I was too busy for most of yesterday (my final day at home/work before our Florida vacation) to even think about tweeting.
Anyway, congrats to Dan! I find your lack of faith… well-justified. 🙂