Noticing an absolutely huge and perhaps unprecedented exodus from X today. I'm down more than 10,000 followers. And while I'm not above a bad tweet or two, I don't think it's anything I posted.
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Everyone has until the 15th of Nov to delete so Elon can’t use your data to train AI. Also, the bot farms are leaving because they accomplished their objective
I weaning off of X and created my account here today. Trying to rebuild here in hopes of a better forum to organize and support each other. Please follow, I'm fresh and need some hope here!
Yes, I deactivated mine this am, sort of as planned. Don’t want to be any part of the oligarchy over there. Have seen a few friendly faces; hope more do this.
Early this morning I deleted and removed from all devices my 13 years Twitter account. And felt relieved. There is a french folksay that I can try to translate: "When all the disguted are gone, only remains the disgusting".
I left Twitter today and look forward to post here and on Mastodon. Don't keep supporting #Maga #Musk, please. Nobody needs X unless you make money there.
I haven’t deleted my account there yet, but as soon as I feel that most of my friends have migrated here, I will. (And I follow you there, so you’ll be down another one when that happens.)
Honestly it's about fucking time. The only reason people who weren't hardcore right leaning stayed around begrudgingly was because a lot businesses still use it as their primary source of spreading news. It's a fucking disgrace companies didn't jump ship earlier, place is a fucking nazi shithole.
Part of the exodus here 👋🏽. Was holding on for my community & ignoring the noise but the cementation of the oligarchy is a bridge too far. Happy to find so many good peeps from the other place here.
i mean shoot man, i just wandered over here to see if it'll give me the fix i need without the toxicity etc so i never have to go back to that damn site.
It’s because people are just abandoning the site. It’s not a good place for most people anymore and is just growing into a cancerous mess. It’s why I am focusing on moving what few followers I have to here.
I'm leaving. I only followed for sports reporters. But I'm a Titans fan and our season is in the shitter anyways. Might as well get out now and just hope more reporters come over here.
Personally I stayed to try and debunk the crazies and trump's posts and because unfortunately the best way to stay up to date on what's happening was twitter.
Lessons learned. This website isn't perfect but it's been about ten hours since I've been called fag, retard, soy boy, beta cuck or pdf file
They're antagonizing literally anyone they think leans left. The entire site is currently just conservatives telling everyone how eager they are to fuck everyone over for no reason
I’m hanging on a minute to give my followers time to find me here (I have 1400 there and only 40 here)… but I did lock that account down further and will be deactivating entirely by end of year. I will not continue to engage on Nazi owned platforms.
i made my bluesky account today. im not deleting twitter i will stay on there until i either get banned or the website is shutdown. but i do genuinely want to move on. that place is seriously just too much for me to handle right now
Do you think maybe part exodus, part mass deletion of bots that engaged in manipulation and disinformation campaigns for Trump / Russia leading up to the election (burning the evidence)?
I finally gave up today and saw a lot of people talking about bluesky, I hadn’t heard of it before, but here I am now. Musk had made my account pretty much invisible for awhile, and with no valid reason except I support the left
Nothing of interest there. Bots and trolls. Algorithms that suppress true engagement. Had enough. Musk only bought it so he could control the message and I won't give one penny and no more of my time.
I’ve moved from Twitter to here to escape the cesspit of humanity that seems to have enveloped that site recently. Hoping for some calm and what Twitter used to be before Musks’ buy out.
I just deactivated my account today there, too. I'm trying this out. Not going to support anything Elon again ever. I followed you on there. Grateful I'm Canadian, but woke up with a huge sense of dread.
I'm a small account but I've seen at least a half dozen account deletions among people in my circle (admittedly, I suggested that people delete their accounts).
I tried to deactivate it just now, even though I had it locked and wasn’t using it, and it’s not letting me. I wonder how many people are trying to do so like me and are getting an error message.
Try going to a different device- I was having the same problem yesterday and found that suggestion on reddit. It worked on the first try after HOURS of trying from my iPad.
Yes! I coudn't figure out how to delete it from my phone app at all, so I tried it on the web app and that's where I got the initial error message. But I think it worked now (I hope). Anyway, it's nice over here! I wish I hadn't waited so long.
My guess is that if people have deleted their accounts, they are just gone, but 10k is a lot. It turns out it's a process to delete one's account. It may take me 30 days so I am told. #NotGoingBack 😉
No, it just takes time to fully delete. It can't be done immediately. I had the same experience with my Facebook account years ago—they probably hope we'll change our minds. First, I need to get my archive, which should take 24 hours (still waiting on it). https://tweetdelete.net/resources/how-to-delete-twitter-account-a-no-frills-guide/
I didn’t care about my archive so I just deactivated my account, but you do have 30 days to sign back in and reactivate it if you change your mind. Not me. It’s the one thing I can say I’m not going back to.
I understand. I thought I might be able to track some of my twitter friends down if I had the information. If I get impatient I will go back and delete it (if that's an option, I forget).
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2011 when I started.
Fuck Elon
here's hoping! lol
It won't matter.
Elon didn't buy Twitter to make money, he bought it to win an election and seize more power
We are not going back.
I tried to spread legitimate information on Twitter but I guess many don't care about facts or reality.
🤦
Lessons learned. This website isn't perfect but it's been about ten hours since I've been called fag, retard, soy boy, beta cuck or pdf file
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.bsky.social/post/3lacagpzarn2h
It's bad when celebrities are leaving in droves.
Will likely deactivate that one too in the near future.
https://tweetdelete.net/resources/how-to-delete-twitter-account-a-no-frills-guide/
Another reason to leave twitter:
https://etownian.com/main/news/changes-in-xs-privacy-policy-promote-ai/