Delete your Twitter. Bleed the monster dry. - ThreadSky

voicesbyzane.bsky.social • 30 days ago

Delete your Twitter. Bleed the monster dry.

Elon Musk says Twitter (X) is 'barely breaking even' and user growth has stagnated

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Hard to imagine why this happened. He told his advertising clients to "fuck off". He made sure that 50%+ of his users were forced to see the "Nazi-porn-bar-right-wing-speech-absolutism" and nothing else.

madscientistjc.bsky.social•30 days ago

I refuse to believe it's breaking even. That man is losing his kneecaps to someone.

cptshell.bsky.social•29 days ago

Request all your data first, it costs them server compute time to harvest all your data and send it to you. But yeah delete it.

voicesbyzane.bsky.social•29 days ago

Okay every time I tell people to delete their Twitter I get replies like "put it on private so nobody can steal your handle" but like.... delete your Twitter. Even if someone were to impersonate you who gives a shit. Just say "yeah that's not me I'm not on twitter"

happymemeco.bsky.social•29 days ago

The problem with putting it on private is it still counts towards user count and thus keeps the stock price up. If user count spirals downward so will the stock price. The only way to do it mewninfuly is to fully delete.

voicesbyzane.bsky.social•29 days ago

Not like there's a fuckin verification system anymore

frostyausty.bsky.social•29 days ago

I think the fear of change is keeping people from doing the right thing. We can't stay in places that are actively becoming hostile.

roobeemoonstone.bsky.social•29 days ago

It's less "fear of change" and more "I spent a while building up my following on twitter and don't wanna throw it all away just cuz of a whiny billionaire throwing a tantrum"

frostyausty.bsky.social•29 days ago

He's not giving you a choice.

It's stay and keep what you have, or empower someone who will take it from you anyway.

If you have a good following, they'll follow you too.

shadeedkelly.bsky.social•27 days ago

Here's the reason why:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueskySocial/comments/1hg8ozz/why_you_shouldnt_delete_your_x_account/?share_id=dHVDyi34qwY2Xqhoq2Qj4&utm_content=1&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1&rdt=60119

generalrusty78.bsky.social•29 days ago

Also would it even matter? By the sounds of it the site is going to be gone by the end of the year, the amount of real people using it can't be that much

desastertristan.bsky.social•29 days ago

People act like handles are this very profound and traceable thing and not... A string of characters and numbers that have been faked with a simple O-0 and I-l exchanges thousands of times for scamming and false info.

raerdaemon.bsky.social•29 days ago

i'm just keeping mine up long enough for my followers to see my bluesky handle and move with me. after some time, i'm deleting

voicesbyzane.bsky.social•30 days ago

God if this ends with Elon buried in an oil drum somewhere in the Saudi Arabian desert this will all have been worth it

pilchowski.bsky.social•30 days ago

Beyond anything else, Musk not making it out of 2025 remains my strongest belief for the year/Trump 2.0. He just can't help make himself be hated by anyone who sees him properly

droewyn.bsky.social•29 days ago

It's why I'm loving this whole "President Elon" thing. If anything inspires Trump to have him deported, it's gonna be that.

conservativedem5.bsky.social•29 days ago

There is much to dislike and be repulsed by.

spindletree.bsky.social•29 days ago

tis done!

meowseverywhere.bsky.social•29 days ago

Already did

jbryan.bsky.social•30 days ago

If he says they're breaking even then they're in the red.

hornygaytank.bsky.social•29 days ago

one of our guildies had a coder move from twitter to the people he works for and most of elon's personal followers/likes on his posts are from internal bots.

fluffbuffjams.bsky.social•29 days ago

I requested my data and I'm ready to yeet it into oblivion when that finally is completed.

zelph.bsky.social•30 days ago

I deleted mine today, I wasn't using it since Brazil blocked it last year so might as well finish the job

nikomo.fi•29 days ago

What in the unholy fuck are they still getting money from?

chasebiscuits.bsky.social•29 days ago

Twitter blue and business subscriptions

nikomo.fi•29 days ago

Hosting is fucking expensive though. Blue is stupid, but it's not that expensive.

You upload one 2-minute video that gets a ton of views, the bandwidth costs are already basically going to burn a ton of that month's Blue revenue for that one account.

It's gotta be advertisers.

jason-it.bsky.social•29 days ago

Counterpoint: turn your Twitter back on, upload long videos of nothing, let him pay the costs of cloud storage.

coldthebunny.bsky.social•29 days ago

Already did that last year after i couldn’t stand to see the constant far-rights tweets being shoved in my feed

jonesydev.itch.io•30 days ago

I got out the week before the Musk takeover. Cashing out and watching every low-hanging branch it's hit since then has been a joy.

heckmanft7.bsky.social•29 days ago

that's what he gets for trying to defund wikipedia

ahowman12.bsky.social•29 days ago

fakemrpopo.bsky.social•29 days ago

Never was never will.

moncraft.bsky.social•29 days ago

Get fucked Elon

pakneh.bsky.social•29 days ago

maceblack.bsky.social•29 days ago

Already done. But there is the whole 30day waiting BS thing.

theanimationvoice.com•29 days ago

Deleted it in October.

Let the beast starve!!!

generalrusty78.bsky.social•29 days ago

I find it ironic that the "head" of a government group about being effective has bleed a popular billion dollar social media site within a presidential term.

dragonnexus.bsky.social•29 days ago

I do not believe Twitter is breaking even.

All the $8 a month subs cannot be keeping that thing afloat.

paragon00.bsky.social•29 days ago

Okay

kanna-banana.bsky.social•29 days ago

if we all work together we can make him have more and more embarrassing public moments trying to be edgy and also as a bonus we get to watch journalists twisting themselves into a pretzel to try to convince us that this is normal and not weird at all

honestly it's a complete win on all fronts imo

hellscapenav.bsky.social•29 days ago

If I’m not mistaken, Twitter wasn’t even breaking even when he bought it. They were close, but not quite there. I highly doubt they ever reached that point after the number of advertisers that left and never came back.

hellscapenav.bsky.social•29 days ago

He’s definitely lying his ass off because things are getting too dire to even pretend they’re going lukewarm, anymore.

hellscapenav.bsky.social•29 days ago

But then again what do we expect from this moron. His original Full-Self Driving release date promise will turn 10-years-old next year, so……

metaphysician.bsky.social•30 days ago

Abandoned twitter months ago but finally went back to properly delete it this week.

jordini2000.bsky.social•29 days ago

I've been afraid to log on there ever since Musk bought that place, even to delete my account

escarietson.bsky.social•29 days ago

Just did. #FuckMusk

wari-os.bsky.social•30 days ago

finally deactivated my account and it felt like finally ripping myself away from the grasp of some cursed blade

jellybomb.bsky.social•29 days ago

Oh what a good reason to complete. Delete my account. This is awesome.

manticorn.bsky.social•30 days ago

I felt it was better to keep my account and never log in so that they're forced to keep all my shit. Could be wrong tho idk

ontheofftrack.com•30 days ago

Helps prevent username theft and impersonations too

desastertristan.bsky.social•29 days ago

It does not. Impersonation mostly happens by copying all the info and just changing an easily overlooked character in the name. You are not and were never safe from impersonation.

ontheofftrack.com•29 days ago

I said helps prevent, not prevents. Most critically, it means that if I forget to remove a link to my old twitter profile somewhere, it will still link to me and not some cretin posting scams or something

schilderich.bsky.social•27 days ago

But why would you care about that if you appearantly don't use the platform from which you still link to Twitter? Otherwise you'd probably update that link, wouldn't you? Twitter is a bubble from nazis/bots for nazis/bots at this point. So why bother about impersonation there?

manticorn.bsky.social•30 days ago

True, I forgot about that

aggiebrett.bsky.social•29 days ago

Plus, blocks eat up server space and cycles. Delete everything, keep the blocks, go silent.

mapleqb.bsky.social•29 days ago

Download your data before deleting your Twitter. Burn their resources and bandwidth to the fullest extent of your abilities.

magnilmagnus.bsky.social•30 days ago

Quick addendum to this: if you delete your Twitter your handle will become up for grabs. So if that’s a potential problem make sure to private your account instead.

kurtmcd.bsky.social•22 days ago

If it's shown he's added bots or that Twitter is aware of bots and they are used for hits to advertisers, would that not be fraud?
Does anyone inside have proof of such a thing?

arytomd2.bsky.social•29 days ago

Him doing a Hitler really paid off didn't it

alexritchie95.bsky.social•29 days ago

That should be my account gone. Either that or I have been locked out of my own account while trying to delete it. God their it systems gone down the gutter.

sturmovikdragon.bsky.social•29 days ago

Alternative, find a way to be a bad customer with a private account and/or marginal quality video uploads

rovingdatamancer.bsky.social•29 days ago

Logged back on to delete my account.

First thing I saw: A fuckin' AI add...

No regrets.

dragonboypaws.bsky.social•29 days ago

Kill it proper

relstin.bsky.social•29 days ago

Already did a couple months back. But I wish I could do it again.

eris-god-of-pasta.bsky.social•29 days ago

Man with a freshly misused gun: "Why is gun crime on the rise?"

rainbowlesbiab.bsky.social•29 days ago

"Barely breaking even"... The whole reason why the former owners were so interested in suing Musk into buying twitter was because it was not profitable to begin with, I don't think he managed to actually change that...

ourosky.bsky.social•30 days ago

DOIN' MY PART !

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