I am not leaving Twitter

I relish the thought that he goes through this exercise to allow TFG back and he doesn't return because of TSocial

but I never liked Twitter in the first place, so it is really easy for me to just stay away. I never saw the value of Twitter and I've known people who got addicted to it. For many people, it isn't healthy and often serves no real purpose.

I've come to use it for immediate breaking news, never engage with anyone especially RWNJs

from the New York Times and if I'm interested in a story, I can read an actual article that is more than 250 characters. Then if I want to discuss something current, I can come here and have some meaningful exchanges instead of "tweet and run" from people I'll probably never interact with again.

of humanity's brightest and best involved share information with each other and the world, but -- as would have to be for a place where that happens -- Twitter overall leans LIBERAL.

When corporate and media leaves, then it will die a natural death

I rarely tweet anyway. I don't even scroll twitter, but I do read essential posts on DU and other places where I see embedded tweets.

brought back, as can participants like you and me. But the communities of minds from every field and important event who post there can't just be quickly wooed back if they reestablish elsewhere.

Just imagine if the people reporting from inside what's happening in Iran, and experts analyzing it all, did it elsewhere.

This is so amazing to watch. Who'da thought? No surprise tRump's been given his giant communication capability back again, though.

followers and are seeing lots of rw garbage that I never saw before tho. A lot you can tell are bots. But just have to ignore cuz you could spend way too much time blocking.

Just looked and saw that I lost another 30 followers. And I can't help but think that no one would take the time to unfollow people before they left. Must mean that if you actually deactivate your account it must remove the link to all the people you follow?? But like someone said it's not an easy thing to deactivate.

read tweets. At one time, some time ago, I started posting info on political media coverage but got really busy for a while and didn't continue. Send your account name and pick up a follower who should always have been.

But no worries ... Fading too fast lol

They're relatively easy to replicate. The question in my mind is how long can humanity's brightest and best stand the cesspool Twitter is bound to become? There were already problems with what policing it did have pre man-child. With the org now gutted, there's few if any to watch the content store. My prediction is utter chaos within 6 months.

None of the options currently available offer anything like the breadth and reach and variety of Twitter, warts and all, and none are likely to do so for quite a number of years. They're either rival behemoths, like Facebook (which I wouldn't touch with a bargepole for a variety of reasons), or relative backwaters.

the sewage tends to collect, at least most of them. You could be right anyway. One political user said yesterday that Twitter felt dirtier (tRump reinstated), and that distaste may become pervasive. He's directing followers to a new platform.

I got a kick, though, out of a new genre of posts from other account holders rolling their eyes at the idea that they'd be among those thrown and anxious at what's happening.

"...me concerned? My dear, I'm... an anthropologist, an evolutionary psychologist living through a golden era of material, an anarcho-socialist revolutionary leader (my motto's "the ABSOLUTELY worse the better" ), an astrophysicist, a collector of ancient pornography pre- and post- civilizational collapses."

Until such time we should maintain a sequestered presence of liberal thought

I want to see in my feed of people and orgs to follow. Took years to cultivate... Hope it doesn't go away. That will definitely be the end if I have to weed thru nutcases.

Deleted on the news of Trump. I won't be back.

his crazy, let him do it himself strategy

Besides, I saw a survey one time of things trump lovers DIDN'T like about trump and excessive crazy tweets was on the top! If he ever starts up again. Truth Social has to go down first?

His presence is the only thing keeping "Truth" afloat.

And definitely not looking at or clicking ads.

Perhaps it’s dumpster fire curiosity.

I don't think Twitter can reverse its fortunes with Musk at the helm. He's quickly proven himself totally incompetent and entirely unfamiliar with managing a consumer social media enterprise. If he had any sense, he'd banish himself from the platform and bring in a solid CEO to lead the Twitter team and repair the damage he's done.

I gave no phone number or address. Last thing I did was vote no on Trump coming back.

Musk "allowing" Trump back onto the platform puts Musk in a position of status over Trump. The message warnings about some tweet containing disputed information are weak sauce. Musk can mock Trump to much greater effect. The way to fight disinformation is with bold free speech, not priggish tsk-tsking or canned, say-nothing warnings.

they can boot me off or they can go down, but I'm staying.

i have deactivated my account, but i'm still on fb along with most of my extended family scattered to all corners of the USA. a lot of people think it's wrong. it's my choice and it's yours.

I won’t pay to stay but until I have to I’ll do my part in debunking the RWNJs.

For one thing, it's often hilarious.

They'll have to drag my mouse out of my sweaty, Cheeto-stained hands.

It's the closest I've gotten to summarizing my mindset and stubbornness about refusing to be driven off, and I don't think DU needs yet another OP about Twitter at the moment:

Other than from time to time re-posting content from Twitter on DU, Musk doesn't really make any money from me at the moment. Given the state of Twitter's advertising, any clicks that generates aren't very well monetized anyway. If he tries to change that, I'll certainly reconsider and weigh the pros and cons.

I'm a somewhat strange user in that I've never tweeted! I started an account solely because I wanted more control over what I saw on Twitter and my experience of it.

I think there's a mindset among some of us older (ex-)activists - those who're old enough to have been around during the days of cyclostyled leaflets tapped out on ancient typewriters by candlelight, desperate small or large demos to try to make an impact, NVDA and the resulting court cases, letters to papers, phone trees, mailed newsletters, all that sort of stuff, but not cowed by new technology - that boggles at the tools available nowadays and wonders what the world might have been like now if they'd been available back in the day when there were more prospects of disarmament, more time to combat climate change etc., etc.

Being resourceful in those days often meant hijacking media and assets of the state that we might have disapproved of. Conceiving of what's going on as a Twitter insurgency might be a bit grandiose, but quite a few people on DU have certainly enjoyed some of the verbal beatings Musk has taken on Twitter in the last few weeks!

And as I've pointed out a few times, when I joined Twitter, Trump was very active there. Nevertheless, I saw much more of Trump and his tweets on DU than I ever did on Twitter because I generally blocked or ignored his output there.

News from Ukraine, Iran instantly before you. NATO, US government and so many others post daily.

Never been on Twitter. But I've seen its influence on corporate media framing of politics. Jeff Tiedrich is one influencer.

Recent on the ground Tweets can do what corporate media don't -- provide instant facts.
One example from corporate MSNBC that un-framed everything other media have said for at least six years (including MSNBC).

Link to tweet

This fact debunked two arguments even our elected leaders have made -- Once and for all, Democrats don't have a "messaging problem"; that voters and Democrats are in touch with each other, even if Democrats don't get enough straight ticket voting.

I'm with Tweeters who won't let capitalist platforms promote corporate fascist divisive messaging.


Here's a Florida guy who does a good job at that. Jim Wright on Stonekettle.

https://twitter.com/Stonekettle

His writings used to only be available on his blog or via re-posts. It's great to see him gain a wider readership.

He's strictstrict in demanding that you ask permission before you repost him.

So I can see why he hasn't been posted here. I just emailed asking permission. I'll see if he responds.

He set me on the road of seeking voices online who weren't the usual sorts of people I'd encounter in real life.

That was something of a turning point for me in raking through all the information and opinion out there, and I've found many others since who certainly don't share all my beliefs but have valuable insights to offer.

I appreciate your history of looking for wide ranging sources and insights. He attracts me for similar reasons. But from what I've learned about the intelligence world, they're never really out of that arena. He could have just meant that by "intelligence officer," he had some classified clearance during his military tenure. We don't know. But it does me pause, although I intend to keep checking in on him.

Leaving only emboldens the bullies. I have backups on Mastodon, and elsewhere, as there is a greater than zero chance Twitter will just crash hard.

…explanation on what all can go wrong, read :

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217394573

Life for calling Tomi Lauren a Street Lamp Post appendage about 3 years ago. Ya think Musty, will do a pole to reinstate me?

Lost it on an MTG rant and was banished forever. I still stand by what I typed.

to foreign countries, then fine. You must understand he has to make money somehow and you are a product to be sold.

The very reason I’m off Twitter and Facebook. And tired of having my privacy stomped all over.

is either very brave or very foolish, or has measured the risk and decided it's worth it and doesn't matter a hill of beans.

Twitter has the absolute bare minimum information on me required to let me set up an account.

It's actually far less than I've given DU, which has my real-life email address and payment details.

on people using twitter.

Other than that, I never tweet, I never reply, retweet or like, and I vote on the occasional poll, not expecting that doing so will have any real meaning whatsoever.

They have my login nym and the email address I gave them, apart from that they have nothing. Good luck to Musk making his interest payments on my back. Hell, I almost certainly cost him money.

I wasn't aware you weren't using "you" in the sense of the generic "one" and were having a private exchange with the OP.

I never will.

I have a high tolerance for BS

until Musk amplified the right wing conspiracy about the Paul Pelosi attack, and I have not regretted leaving for an instant since then. I had also promised myself that reinstating drumpf was a red line i would not cross.

I have not deleted my account and remain hopeful that Musk will either bail out, bankrupt out, or simply admit he doesn't know how to run a company (LOL. no way) and twitter might pull out of its nosedive.

I've considered Masatdon but with none of the people I enjoy following there, there seems to be little point to signing up for it

People need to relearn that and not enable fascists like Musk in any way.

there until the bitter end.

All I do is Rt those who are Fighting to Save Our Democracy, anyway.