I saw a post that said that the Twitter app was deleted, but not the account. (The account is private)

Please note that X/Twitter owns all usernames and can reclaim them at any time.

If you leave Twitter without deleting your account, with private option on and you delete the app, Twitter may delete your account and release the username @



#twitter #riptwitter #youdontownyourusername #X

https://x.com/en/tos

As promised in my recent post, I finally got around to finally nuking my account. I already have my archive from two years ago, so there is nothing of value.

Hopefully anyone that is left on that site can find me on Mastodon and also Bluesky as this account is bridged.

I’m done being on Elon’s site, and I’m not going back there, ever again. Been on the site since 2007, but after Elon started ruined it, it’s over for me. My new home is on the Fediverse.

I had a Twitter list "standard stuff" where I listed the core accounts I definitely wanted to hear about. This fav list grew over the years and had 120 users in total. These were active users that in the golden era posted every day. These were the ones I wanted to read whenever possible.

I wanted to see what's the status today so I went through every account and here's the result. By "inactive" I mean users who haven't posted anything in two months or more.

- 20% have completely deleted their account (the list now has 95 users)
- 36% still post frequently
- 64% are inactive or quit using Twitter
- 30% are inactive without any reason given
- 23% of those who still post on X also have active Mastodon, Bluesky or Threads accounts
- 1% quit and moved to Bluesky
- 1% quit and moved to Mastodon
- 1% is active on Threads

Deleted 19.000 Tweets.

Danke @luca für das Script.

«A revair, tschüss, ciao». Warum verlässt eine der berühmtesten Tourismusorganisationen der Schweiz trotz über 12'000 Followern Twitter/X? Ein gutes Beispiel für den aktuellen Wandel von Social Media. #riptwitter #twittermigration #socialmedia #kommunikation https://bernet.ch/blog/2023/12/01/goodbye-12k-follower-graubuenden-ferien-hat-keinen-bock-mehr-auf-x/

Aaaaaaaannnnnnnddddd it's gone...

Twitter's sales team that is.

After Musk cussed out advertisers for not wanting to be a part of his tour of the toilet bowl he calls a platform, his sales reps saw their careers flash before their eyes and bid him adieu.

https://www.businessinsider.com/x-twitter-sales-employees-resignations-elon-musk-comments-advertisers-2023-11

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/analysts-predict-more-brands-flee-140001860.html

When cybertruck?

Antisemitismus bei X/Twitter: Hollywood-Studios verstummen, immer mehr Abschiede | heise online
https://www.heise.de/news/Antisemitismus-bei-X-Twitter-Hollywood-Studios-verstummen-immer-mehr-Abschiede-9541693.html

"Jeden Tag wachen mehr und mehr Marken auf und erkennen die Tatsache, dass Twitter tot ist und X eine Jauchegrube", zitiert Darcy die Einschätzung des IT-Journalisten Casey Newton.
#ElonIsDestroyingTwitter #TwitterExodus #RipTwitter

Linda Yaccarino resignation coming in 5...4...3...

I remember last year when the #RIPTwitter hashtag was trending on Twitter and about 1% of my mutuals actually believed in Twitter's downfall. I'm sure that percentage has gone up like to 90% by now.

Jaetaan tämä julkisesti, niin ei tule lipsuttua https://nitter.net/jaoler/status/1718201961797878000 #RipTwitter

My wife and I have been setting up each new #iPhone15 this evening. Sometimes a new phone requires re-authenticating with various apps.

She proclaimed:
“#Facebook worked. #Instagram worked. #Threads worked. #Mastodon worked. #Spill worked. And #Bluesky worked.”

But for #Twitter, the 2FA would not accept her authenticator's code. After about 5 minutes of repeatedly trying, she exclaimed:
“I give up. Maybe I don't need to look at Twitter.”

Ironic how shortening a product's name to one character has ultimately resulted in MORE characters being used to describe it, since everyone has to use "the app formerly known as Twitter" for anyone to know what they're actually referring to.

The thing about Twitter that will be lost to time, the most devastating missing piece that is no longer faithfully recorded, is The Conversation. Only those of us who experienced it will remember.

Culture changed a lot thru those years. Those shifts were decided, among other places, on Twitter. Twitter’s rapid-fire network arguably drove The Conversation.

We belonged to a hive mind, each of us a separate neuron connected to the neurons in our local synaptic network, sparking off ideas. We’d debate those ideas w others, refining those ideas and rejecting the bad ones. We reasoned. We were a reasoning mind. We came to a lot of decisions about what things were harmful, what terminologies to settle on, what strategies were useful in activism, all manner of such things. Sure, some of those arguments are still being had (here and elsewhere), but much of that stuff is long settled, and we settled it there. Recorded in incomprehensible detail, worth studying for centuries.