I played Torn from Feb through April last year and eventually deleted my account. Because I don’t use social media, I had never played social media like it before (Mafia Wars etc) and everything about it was new to me.
It seemed interesting, but progress was much too slow for me. I guess the long action cooldowns and the overall slow pacing & trickle progression is direct result of this being an oldschool social media/facebook/myspace type game, but I burned out on that style of game back in 1992 with BBS door games like Legend of the Red Dragon.
What ultimately killed the game for me was the community manager urging people to write poetry about pot or some shit. True to form for the characters in this particular game I guess, but I’d rather slay dragons.