They don’t care. Elon Musk along with Trump are creating an army of loyal zealots. Militia leaders are becoming an unofficial military force to carry out Trump’s orders. X is running cover for them.
I have left Twitter …. if I went into a pub or bar where other customers were shouting out right wing propaganda, offensive lies and total misinformation at the top of their voice, I’d walk out and go elsewhere …. so, I won’t stay on Twitter either !!!
Good analogy. Sadly I had to change my local in Cumbria when Brexit gave licence to the public expressions of racism amongst some of the clientele. I wouldn't use X or own a Tesla either.
Well can't say I am surprised the way it has gone, as soon as Musk set his greedy man baby eyes on twitter it was doomed. Musk is a textbook narcissist with a supremely fragile ego that demands retribution against anyone that dares to criticise the great MuskRat or his play date mate Trump the Dump!
Well done Mike. I used to think we should stay and fight but that ship has sailed. I know others will stay just to keep abreast of the madness. Deepest respect to them.
@RonFilipkowski
Twitter won the day for Trump against the woke mind virus.Twitter,Truth Social, and the Conservative Podcasters did it.Defeat is always a difficult pill to swallow !
Good move! Our once lovely Twitter is now like that rotten tooth that you remember chewing some really nice things with, but now it's infected beyond repair. Out is the only way to stop the pain.
I am concerned that Twitter would not let me delete/deactivate my account ? I have even tried their help desk... any ideas gratefully received, thank you 😀
I have left Twitter …. if I went into a pub or bar where other customers were shouting out right wing propaganda, offensive lies and total misinformation at the top of their voice, I’d walk out and go elsewhere …. so, I won’t stay on Twitter either !!!
I’m having an awful time getting off Twitter. I finally changed my password, bc it kept telling me there was an error, but I keep getting the same message with the new password. Trying to contact anyone is a joke, too. Any suggestions?
I cannot understand why so many organisations still use X as their only 'tweet' platform. Just decided to start reminding them of their social responsibilities. Perhaps if more of us could give this a go… do not validate Musk!
I read yesterday that the NFL in the US has some agreement with twitter to have their accounts post there. My guess is most orgs still see a larger reach there at the moment (sadly)
Yes, I do think you are right. But I am intending to ask organisations, as I come across them, for their rationale. Prodding cannot harm. I sent my first request this afternoon. I am genuinely interested what the answer will be
A decade ago it was the best way to get breaking news from around the world.
Then it got too popular with basement dwellers wanting to force feed us their opinions.
But then, the age of Elon, the Dark Nazi. It’s not safe for any democracy.
Xitter is dead to me.
I left a little while ago. I felt my presence on X was feeding Musk's algorithms, and by doing so I was feeding the increasingly toxic and hateful discourse. I was therefore part of the problem and my conscience wouldn't let me continue, in that knowledge. Haven't encountered the same on #BlueSky
For a while it made sense 2 remain,be the other voices.Now it makes no sense,it just results in giving it credibility.Just like i would not join Truth social-X is not Twitter.It is no longer a neutral voice for all perspectives.Owned by a fascist, the whole platform functions to promote those values
There's a few of the twitter cocksplat brigade migrating across. Check before engaging then Block block block. Don't give them so much as the steam off your... ermmmm, liquid, makes yellow snow. Not easy because some of them present such a tempting target.
An interesting phenomenon that I think of as X denizens reaching for the amoral low ground, a race to the bottom, where everyone has their own specific set of hatreds, distinct from anyone else with whom there's no common ground. People's Front of Judea on steroids, or crack cocaine, more likely.
I was convinced I'd always call it Twitter, just to piss 'him' off but when that cretin became overtly fascist and the site openly pushed that agenda in the discover feed, I now refer to it as X. Twitter died with his $44bn.
They just limited by account again, for suggested that if Trump gets a cold and dies, he should be allowed to. Not acceptable apparently. I am soldiering on there still. Someone has to fight the bastards in their own back-yard.
Staying there just increases the traffic and makes advertising more valuable. If you fight them your account gets throttled and no one sees your stuff.
🧵 1-3 Billionaire boycott of Trump supporters and corporations. Show them that they need our 70 +million anti-Trump money too.
Musk: Get off X, don’t buy Teslas or Starlink, don’t buy stock in any of his companies. Zuckerberg: Before getting off FB, deactivate his advertising trackers, What’s App,
🧵 Instagram, and Threads. Bezo: Amazon (my weakness), buy from 2nd hand/small local bookstores. Try not to buy any big ticket items this year, and buy local from small grocery store, butchers, bakers, craftsmen, fruit stands, etc. Before tariffs, make a side pantry with dry goods, canned goods,
stock up on things worth more than money.
there's a saying. weed will get you through times of no money better than money will get you thru times of no weed.
that goes for anything else worth more than money, you can't eat money, it will be worth much less soon. snag up some silver, gold now too
Hoping blue sky won’t be sold off to a lunatic. It happens!
Wish there was an ethical version of a FB type thing. It’s great for community stuff.
I fear we could all get segregated from each other really quickly. Then what?
Who do I link arms with? Where do we go?
Well done - I left ages ago even though I haven’t managed to gain thé number of followers I had there it was worth it. Now the U.K. Gov needs to ditch X too
My last tweet was November 14. I had a nightmare that night about being on there & 1st thing on November 15, I saw a comment that said X wants to destroy your data via AI to use for training. I got off of there so fast-I deleted the account. Don’t forget to go in and unsubscribe it internally too.
Not at all, but the article is written in the first person by @markfergusonmp.bsky.social not @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social. Mike is quoting Mark… not citing his own actions… unless I have it horribly wrong, in which case, I apologise.
No, you're 100% right. It's not Mike it's Mark saying he's quitting X. Thank you for pointing that out. Glad I'm not the only plonker who misunderstood the 🤦♀️
I just quit Twitter today. I used to be quite engaged with it as a place to get the latest current events and sports...now it's all ads and hate and the owner just did a nazi salute...bye
I have already done the same and condemned Twitter (formerly known as "X") to the wheelie bin of life. It is a rancid, foetid pit of racism, hatred and lies.
Given our own Govt & its depts are still on there, what hope is there that other organisations will follow!? They could post on both platforms for the time being. Crazy they aren’t on here.
Good decision, especially when we know that any money we give to E Musk will be used to promote far-right populism and destabilise democracy, especially in America and in Europe.
My Twitter 'following' list has been slashed to just 25 mostly NI local sports/new issues and a few energy/EV peeps who have moved yet. I cannot replace this local content on BS but I've removed the cesspit.
Musk will lie about it, that's a certainty, in the way he has consistently lied about users & engagement since he's owned it. And failing that he will create a few million more bots to create flattering his phoney followers count, delicate narcissist that he is.
Yes! why in the hell are people paying that fucking Natzi ketamine trippin whack job immigrant president elonia muskrat? kneecap the turd! If everyone would just GET OFF TWITTER you fuck him up
Why wallow in misery? The twats remaining seem to feel energized as they spiral downward. It's not a civilized space where people behave in ways to respect one another. It is a devolution where the fearful regress into primal behavior. Did we pass the peak of civilized society around 2000?
Why anyone would want a bazillion low rent adverts (temu in particular), porn and paid for shouting is beyond me. I think we have to accept that twitter died quite a while ago. And Facebook is on the way, which I find harder to leave as I've found it genuinely useful at times of loneliness.
I dropped instagram during the "we're going to own the copyright to your images" debacle and skipped threads.
Fingers crossed bluesky doesn't go the same way, I have my doubts...
Musk bought Twitter to control the narrative and arguably the American election. Let's leave X to the Yanks, so they can misinform each other till rapture 😎👽
Deactivated mine earlier this week
After the blatant nazism I refuse to share a platform with that Nazi scum
About time others followed suit and leave the cesspit to them and the right wing vermin
I left there a little over a year ago. Before Elon bought it I loved it & I had a couple of wonderful groups I belonged to. Musk ruined though. I couldn't take it any more so I left. It's very nice here. 🩵💙🩵💙🩵
In X settings you should be able to go to deactivate. Once you click that you are asked to enter username and password. Once you do that you should then be able to click on deactivate account. Once done you uninstall app.
Absolutely. Twitter’s descent into chaos under Musk’s leadership has turned a once-vibrant platform into a megaphone for hate and misinformation. Walking away isn’t giving up—it’s refusing to fuel the toxicity. #TwitterIsDead #GoodbyeChaos
Please don't forget the amount of porn that is easily obtained. I didn't know you had to turn that option off when MuskyBoi took it over. Suddenly I was seeing porn in my feed. Nothing like having control over content.
I finally got rid of my personal and work account last night. Felt ok really. No reason to stay when it has such a vile owner. Pity so many hideous billionaires own our means of media, commerce& communication.
THREE YEARS. It took you THREE YEARS to figure this out?
Elon Musk must be David Copperfield. Makes democracy disappear and reappear. Everybody applauds. Until the Statue of Liberty doesn’t come back. Damn. So proud of you guys patting your back for being last to the exit doors.
Gave up twitter years ago. Sharing the same thoughts about FB and Ins. The only things that kept me with Meta for now are my connections to friends and families on FB as most of them are overseas, and 1.5 decades of life memories on Instagram.
I also recently left Twitter because of the consistent hate and aggression directed at any liberal voice. Globally now many countries and their major institutions are leaving Twitter, you only need to look at France and Germany, it is time that our Government and crucial organisations did the same.
I finally deactivated my account at 17.00 on Monday - exactly at the same time as a rapist felon was handed unlimited powers in America. I don’t miss it, maybe just a few people but I’m sure they will join us here soon.
It felt sad to uninstall an app that I've been using since 2009 with wonderful communities built around topics I care abt but Musk sliced, diced and toxified that experience leaving little choice but to leave.
I did this yesterday. I felt sad for the people I will lose that I engaged with for over a decade but the sense of peace I had once it was deactivated and deleted let me know it was the right decision.
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Banks loaning Elon Musk’s Twitter/X are taking a beating, hoping to sell about $3 billion in loans at 90-95 cents on the dollar.
In email to X staff, Musk says "user growth is stagnant, revenue is unimpressive, and we're barely breaking even.”
https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/wall-street-banks-prepare-to-sell-billions-of-dollars-of-x-loans-c609beb1
I came off the day Musk took over.
@RonFilipkowski
Their insights and dialogue is critical.
That goes for every agency and government
too.
THOSE businesses, companies, organizations and groups should be NUMBER ONE on your list to not spend your money at or give them a minute of your time.
Get off of twitter.
Then it got too popular with basement dwellers wanting to force feed us their opinions.
But then, the age of Elon, the Dark Nazi. It’s not safe for any democracy.
Xitter is dead to me.
Musk: Get off X, don’t buy Teslas or Starlink, don’t buy stock in any of his companies. Zuckerberg: Before getting off FB, deactivate his advertising trackers, What’s App,
there's a saying. weed will get you through times of no money better than money will get you thru times of no weed.
that goes for anything else worth more than money, you can't eat money, it will be worth much less soon. snag up some silver, gold now too
Hoping blue sky won’t be sold off to a lunatic. It happens!
Wish there was an ethical version of a FB type thing. It’s great for community stuff.
I fear we could all get segregated from each other really quickly. Then what?
Who do I link arms with? Where do we go?
Tomorrow... Falsebook.
yep. GAMERGATE, August 2014
Fxxk off you Nxxi Baxxerds.
Fingers crossed bluesky doesn't go the same way, I have my doubts...
After the blatant nazism I refuse to share a platform with that Nazi scum
About time others followed suit and leave the cesspit to them and the right wing vermin
There you go
Congratulations on taking the right step.
You were verified there too 👏👏
Think it’s important to #BoycottPremium and encourage others to do the same.
It’s the #blueticks that are funding it
I downloaded my 15 years of Twitter history before deleting my account. Hopefully that is still possible. Look in your account settings.
Elon Musk must be David Copperfield. Makes democracy disappear and reappear. Everybody applauds. Until the Statue of Liberty doesn’t come back. Damn. So proud of you guys patting your back for being last to the exit doors.