A bit over a week ago, I decided that my Twitter account had become too distracting.  With an abundance of work to take care of, I opted to remove the account and thus eliminate any possible distractions.

That worked well.  Until things began to settle down anyways.  That’s when I realized that I missed the opportunity catch the small details that don’t quite make it to my RSS reader.  Like, the introduction of Matt McGee from Small Business SEM and Jeff Quipp from Search Engine People.

They’re blogging about their competition and the charitable events here:

Game on Matt … 1st to 500 Twitter Followers Wins!
Twittering for Charity: Follow Me

I love both Matt and Jeff, and was more thrilled that they took their Twitter holdout status and managed to break down for the sake of charity.  I mean really… I just use it as a marketing tool — and these cats are out there using it to raise money.

Go figure.

Anyways, this morning Loren hit me up with a post from SEJ that invited the SEJ readers to interact with Search Engine Journal members on Twitter.  I’ve been getting a steady stream of new follower requests, so I’m happy to be back and part of the community again.

Follow me at: http://twitter.com/EricLander

So, my account is completely restored.  I just lost about 1,000 updates in the process.  I guess we’ll see it as a little spring cleaning!