I don't know, but I suspect a lot of the people leaving will also be maga, because there's no one for them to harass anymore! God knows they're not there for the news reports!
The moderators are on top of the MAGA trolls right now, but they'll be less responsive as more fucktards come over here. We can help the mods by blocking and reporting the trolls. The "hide reply" feature is awesome.
Why care about how many followers still show up there? Most are probably bots or people who followed just to get follow backs. Just enjoy Bluesky. And, FWIW, I think the Followers and Following stats should be eliminated. It’s only for ego’s sake, IMO.
I just muted* a troll here aka "godemperorTrump" - he (it's almost always a he) has no original posts, no reposts, just replies. & he's one of the least obnoxious ones, kind of carefully toeing the line of civility but not very well, or intelligently.
*Blocking seems to feed the hole in their souls.
First: Disengage. The punks, Nazis, trolls et al. - & the algorithm - need us more than we'll ever need them.
@malcolmnance.bsky.social keeps urging an en-masse D-day (D for deactivate) exodus, but who's giving the signal andd when? I'm here for it.
Noon on #J20? that would make sense.
Add the potential number of bots to the potential number of followers unwilling to bail for fear of damage to their metrics Maybe it's time to be the thought leader you wish to be recognized as and cut the cord rather than wait for your imagined choir to leave the building before you stop preaching
It only takes a single second to get down to zero. Tell your Twitter followers that if they really want to follow you, they’ll have to follow you to Bluesky, and then delete your Twitter account. The sonner influencers like you leave for good, the sooner it dies.
Followed you for this. I wrote something similar a few days ago. If people would deactivate their X accounts, the advertisers would leave because the toothless MAGAs already gave their life savings to their fat orange "daddy."
And then follow BACK your loyal followers from Twitter/X, who you've been following for years! It helps to follow new people too & just not stay in your own clique.📌
My followers on twitter reduced by hundreds, which I think was before the exodus. Still reducing.
I know it's not about numbers, but reach is important. Musk didn't like that with left-wing accounts.
Never mind, on Bluesky now.
About the same amount of time it takes people to abandon the legacy media (TLM) CNN, NY TIMES, etc. it doesn’t leave me with much hope that we will be able to close ranks and defeat tyranny when millions turn to TLM for daily dose nonsensical moral equivalency
This post makes you sound shallow and only concerned with likes and follows. If you genuinely have a message you want to get out perhaps this isn’t the ideal communication.
Just wanted to add this. We must not leave Twitter just because it’s a trash fire, we must leave because we only add to the wealth he’s using to buy our government, which is buying US. We must make Twitter fail.
Beyond me too. Why are people still there. There is nothing of importance there. Nothing. If everyone actually left, deactivated, mush would be crying more. I think. 🤣
My 8 yr old grand daughter asked if you were Santa. I said no he is just a nice man on the internet. She told me to stop talking to strangers I can only talk to Santa. So hi I a friend from Fla. We can talk now because we are no longer strangers lol!!
Greetings and felicitations my newest friend. Although I am indeed not Santa, I know him. I just asked him to check his naughty and nice list. Tell your granddaughter she’s the nicest of the nice! He also asked me to tell you he’ll be visiting her soon! And “Ho! Ho! Ho!” Merry Christmas!🎄
I’m keeping my account active for the sole purpose of preventing anyone from using that exact name on Twitter.
Kind of like buying all corresponding domain names to prevent fraud.
I don’t see it that way. I’m only going to log into that account once a month. Clear my notifications. And tweet something like “fuck Trump” or “fuck Musk”. Then log out.
In a way, I’m holding my old Twitter account hostage.
@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social Don't worry, most of those viewers and followers on Twitter are really only sex-bots hopping you will be dumb enough to cheat on your spouse.
I tried to delete/deactivate my Xitter account. It won't let me into settings to do so. I even sent him a personal post telling him to 'GFY and the car you drove in on'. Couldn't even get banned.
Same is happening to me, since I called on my followers to join me on BlueSky. Also a helping of abuse from unexpected quarters, who turned out on closer inspection to be MAGA cultists. Lesson learned.
I had like 94k+ posts. I'm down to 12.2K and have also manually deleted. Tweet deleter gets rate limited from Twitter's shitty api. Been almost a month.
I left twitter 2 years ago. My account had about 5K+. I have never been back. Just left my account dormant. Went and looked at it yesterday through a google search and it says I still have 4k. So idk if you will ever get to zero.
A lot of us do not follow if that person is always pointing out how many followers they have. Do you get paid for the follows you have? What's the deal with it. Mute is a likely option for this nonsense.
Stop “ both sidesing” it. You’re either in or you’re out.
Blue sky is here because X has become a toxic wasteland. If you’re still supporting X in any way you’re not supporting blue sky.
Well, that is likely a combo of some bots that deactivated after the election- a known phenomenon- and hopefully more of your real followers who totally shut down their accounts. Also there are "quiet quitters" like me who just don't log on anymore.
But likely 10% drop in folks like us! Excellent!
I'd be happy to follow you, but you don't follow back. I am bored and tired of the Social Media "heroes." Either we communicate or we don't. I encourage everyone to stop pandering to internet voices that pay no attention to us, the masses.
Great book. Stirred up some rage deep inside. I've known too many who were denied by insurance companies. It breaks part of my soul! Human suffering should not be perpetuated by these greedy sons of bitches.
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*Blocking seems to feed the hole in their souls.
@malcolmnance.bsky.social keeps urging an en-masse D-day (D for deactivate) exodus, but who's giving the signal andd when? I'm here for it.
Noon on #J20? that would make sense.
I know it's not about numbers, but reach is important. Musk didn't like that with left-wing accounts.
Never mind, on Bluesky now.
There is no point to twitter, so why bother? You're supporting a fraud and a racist by being there.
On that curve, you approach but never reach zero -- but you get under 1% after 7 halvings.
Forgive me please -- just having a bit of fun with math.
Kind of like buying all corresponding domain names to prevent fraud.
In a way, I’m holding my old Twitter account hostage.
FYSA, a lot of the clout many big planforms have are adversarial, used for THEIR Info ops campaigns:
https://youtu.be/kzVtV40pyM8?si=jRZa42pz5JmVrZv1
It'll go to zero.
Musks algorithms will make sure all big accounts maintain some followers.
Bluesky – 3,500+ following people (in 18 days of activity)
Twitter – 1,600 following people (9 months of activity)
No wonder people are motivated to be on Bluesky.
Never used my alt account much, but decided to start over.
Download you data.
Deactivate your account.
Stop giving Elon money.
Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
Blue sky is here because X has become a toxic wasteland. If you’re still supporting X in any way you’re not supporting blue sky.
We have a better choice.
Why are you still there?
But likely 10% drop in folks like us! Excellent!
Those "X" users then will come here and fuck up this platform and my friend that is not what you want...
Look at "X" see what will relocate here!!!
It will happen that way
We all have to grow up and move on sometime... I'm glad I left earlier.
Leave.