End of Twitter

Well, I deleted all my tweets and unfollowed everyone on Twitter, using Cyd. I migrated my old tweets to a Bluesky account, and saved the exported backups from Twitter for posterity. I am keeping the account and its handle so that they don't get reassigned and squatted.

Twitter was a big deal for me. As of this writing, my defunct account has 14.7k followers. That number, and the ability to spread messages there, and the network of great people I met there, and the silly flamewars, had a mostly-positive impact on my career and life. I loved Twitter. Leaving it probably reduces my reach by a bit. I'm pretty active on Bluesky and Mastodon, but the tech community has been slow to migrate.

But it has obviously and absolutely outlived its purpose. It's run by a Nazi who is causing my country and my friends and the world harm. It is festering with bigots and misinformation. The purpose of Twitter is to spread hatred.

This is not 'virtue signaling' or whatever. Twitter's owner has made his views crystal clear, and the product has been molded into something that serves his political goals. What used to be a social network is now a tool in his destructive conquest. Why would I help him, even a little?

Obviously I'm getting out of there and you should too.