Dear CNN,

You probably don’t know me, but I am one of your 2.8 million followers on Twitter. I’ve been with your Twitter since before you knew twitter existed and your account was run by English hacker James Cox. I subscribed because I wanted to have breaking news updates sent to my phone via text message. For a long time this worked well, and I especially liked the (very) occasional human touch Mr. Cox put in when he screwed something up on accident.

In the beginning, breaking news was just that: big news. I would get a text every few days, sometimes more, but this was a volume that I could handle. Sometimes you posted breaking news about people such as O.J. Simpson and it was easy to forgive you, because the signal to noise ratio was relatively high.

Then you discovered Twitter. You decided to accept Ashton Kutcher’s challenge to reach one million followers after acquiring the breaking news account from James Cox. This, I’ll have to admit, was perhaps the high point of your stay in the Twitterverse. Over the summer, you ran unconfirmed reports from the Iranian protests citing only Twitter, and more recently, your volume of tweets has been unacceptable. Let’s take friday’s ten tweets as an example:

Of these tweets, I would say that only three of these could be considered breaking news. Four of the others are about the thanksgiving mishaps of a single person, two were completely expected reports, and one was about secret service mishap that happened days before.

CNN, I would love to tell you that I am going to unfollow you in protest–I wish I could do that–but I am simply too reliant on the actual news reporting you inform me of. You feed my addiction to information, but you’re feeding me too much nonsense. So please, stop sending me fourteen texts while I’m asleep, I really don’t care about Tiger Woods.

Sincerely, @ctbarna