Will you delete your twitter?

[ColinC]

31 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited
	I have already deleted my twitter
	5 (16%)
	I plan to delete my twitter in the near future
	1 (3%)
	I have never had a twitter account and don't plan on having one
	9 (29%)
	I have never had twitter, but plan to make an account
	0 (0%)
	I have a twitter account and have o plans to delete it
	15 (48%)
	Other
	1 (3%)
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[brooklynite]

1. How is the future Twitter different than the Twitter before 2021?

[ColinC]

2. The twitter before 2021 is responsible for a violent attempt to overthrow the government

…allegedly


The future twitter might not be?

Edit to add: the removal of trump was a selling point for me. I was not active on twitter until after he was removed.

[brooklynite]

7. Trump's rants on Twitter didn't "cause" the insurrection...

…anymore than his rants on TS are putting us at more risk of one in future.

People will always be able to find him if they want to. In the meantime, Twitter attracts a large and broad collection of posters on a range of topics. It will be hard to simply migrate that elsewhere.

[ColinC]

8. It elevated his speech in a way he has not been able to have since

The January 6 committee suggests that is also the case. Amplifying a fanatic’s speech is almost as irresponsible as the speech itself imho

[arlyellowdog]

3. I have to figure out how to delete

[Chellee]

13. Deactivating your account

Click on the more icon (it's three lines or dots, I think)

Then settings.

And you should see a line that says Deactivate my account.

It will want you to acknowledge that it means you can't use it anymore, then one more deactivate and you're done.

I think you have to put your password in as well, to confirm it really is you doing it.

[arlyellowdog]

17. Thanks I did it...even remembered my password

[JohnSJ]

4. Never had a twitter account, and now that it is clear that Musk plans to have every racist, sexist,

antisemitite, bigot, etc. to spread their hate on his platform, why would I ever support such a platform?

[Conjuay]

5. I'm the "other" listed

and I am proud of having been thrown off twitter at least two years ago and permanently banned for upsetting some snowflake or another who probably still thinks that the Mar-A-Lardo is the second coming.

[Grasswire2]

6. I will not cede my space on a public forum to bullies.

Many people we all admire are still there, tweeting, reading, refusing to be driven out.

[irisblue]

9. Nope. I have too many friends. I gain knowledge of Africa, Asia & Middle East from twitter

Twitter is just not American.

[Meowmee]

10. I think eventually I will delete it

I’m worried with everything that is going on there and a nut cases now owns it. But who knows maybe they’ll get rid of him and someone better will take over… for now It just seems to be even more of a cesspool of hate. And I do believe it it contributed to incitement of violence in the insurrection that was the reason they got rid of dumpster off of there I suppose. Allowing that type of incitement and hatred should be illegal in my opinion.

Twitter never played a large role in my life, I only tweeted a handful of times in about 10 years or more. And I barely ever read anything there. There’s nothing I really want to save from there except my photographs on my profile which I have done. I could not see any sign of it in the imploding. I went there a couple of days ago…what I find really annoying now is the Twitter posts on here if I even touch the area near the Twitter it seems to bring me straight to the Twitter app so I may delete the app. I used to be able to just look at it on the web browser.

I’m also concerned that since I went there both my phone and my iPad are constantly asking me to enter my Apple ID information and I’m worried that something has degraded in their security process since so many people resigned from there. Another thing that happened was I think when I went to look at my profile there it asked me to enter my cell phone to even do that and I was not happy giving that information. That has never happened before there. so I’m concerned that the site could be being hacked into by bad actors.

If a new site starts up which declares itself against fascism and hate speech and really follows through on it by not allowing bad actors such as dumpster I may join it.

[LeftInTX]

11. I don't spend time there. It's a source of breaking news. Occasionally, it's a source of amusement

but I really don't spend much time there

It's more of a "tool" for me....

As long as the media uses it to break news etc, it will be in my life. If another medium takes over, it will take over.

[Kennah]

12. I tried, but they won't respond

[BootinUp]

14. I don't post on twitter. My decision on whether to

read stuff there or somewhere else is based on what information I can get.

[TheBlackAdder]

15. I have a dormant one, but don't want another squatter to claim it.

[mainer]

16. Same concern about squatters

I have a blue-checked verified name. If I leave, an impostor could claim the name.

[roamer65]

18. I was banned.

For calling that bubble head Kirk a degenerate scumbag.

A badge I wear with honor.

[XorXor]

19. I neither have plans to delete or not delete my current Twitter account

I could very well decide to delete my Twitter account tomorrow on a whim, or may not. I don't really have much attachments to any social media persona. I routinely delete them and start over. For example, here in DU I probably give myself a fresh start at random about once a year. So, for me, the question is if I plan on continuing to use Twitter. I am certain I will continue to use it because I like debating with people I disagree with.

[RussBLib]

20. I will delete if they charge everyone nt

[ecstatic]

22. I don't see a need to just yet

I'm a light user. I only use it to vent or comment on shows and politics. The platform is kind of a wham, bam, thank you ma'am setup. Talk trash on a hashtag, thank someone, criticize someone without all the formalities and investment that's required on other venues. If I were to be banned, I wouldn't bother to sign back up, but I'm not going to self evict just yet.

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

23. Other

I was a co-creator for a writing project earlier this year. My fellow creator is in Australia and I have no idea what’s going on with that side of Twitter, if the international branch there has been just as gutted as everywhere else.

Out of respect for my co-creator, I have not deleted my account, but if she deletes hers, I’m gone too. The loss of Twitter will be devastating to the creative arts, particularly those who relied heavy on self-promotion for their work.

I barely used Twitter at all, maybe posting a tweet once every few months. I used it mainly to keep up with some of my favorite authors.