have you quit twitter yet?

I have taken the coward's path (logged out but not deleted)

same

provided i have any self control and/or don't otherwise turn out to need my account for dumb grad school scholar self promotion this is probably it for me

I’ve never had a Twitter account, am happy to watch people quit though

xp
oh gawd academic twitter is kind of the pits, though I get feeling that pressure

Twitter is the best social media platform. Instagram is too much of a walled garden (you can't even post links!), Facebook is literally useless, but Twitter allows me to have enjoyable conversations with people (including many ILXors) and weed out all the bullshit I don't want to see with minimal effort. And I post links there to everything I publish, promote my book, etc., etc. Twitter is great.

I will never log off.

respect

Twitter is my preferred avenue for receiving promotion from musicians, movie-makers, comic book creators, etc, as well as some small-to-mid-sized scientific accounts, and then just like random "here's a cute picture of a possum!" type stuff. I don't see a lot of negativity in my feed. When I do, I unfollow. I don't see any point in quitting.

i will continue to enjoy Twitter until some dork asks me to pay for it or give them my real name and address or something

I used to bloody love Twitter and met some irl great people whom I still speak to and see. Now, the only tweets I see are on this site; when I do follow a link I always have the same sense of 'fucking hell, thank God I don't spend time here'. It utterly saps me of energy.

So mostly 'no, but I'm thinking about it' I suppose.

why I logged out: I have a (perfectly rational) seething hatred of elon plus I was overdue for a break anyway.

There was something going around (on twitter lol) about returning to Tumblr, which I would honestly consider as that was my best soc med experience but would probably feel very strange

HOOS is back? Maybe I'll start posting here more again

Wait, are we not supposed to use products run by companies owned by assholes now?

Obviously Twitter sucks in many ways. But given that I have nostalgia for the text-based internet and don't want to post images or video along with words, it's really the only social media option. And I've made a lot of musical connections there that resulted in real projects. Would love an alternative that didn't somehow turn to garbage, though.

xp with my primary online timewaster no longer palatable to me i've gotta waste my time SOMEwhere you know

Instagram is too much of a walled garden (you can't even post links!)

wow an occasion to think fondly of instagram, doesn't happen too often anymore

Wait, are we not supposed to use products run by companies owned by assholes now?

you can do whatever you want?

reading the responses, I do wish I'd made this a survey on which social media platforms people still use in 2022 as that's a more interesting q, though it would also be a pain to make all the poll options

Where is "I'm already banned"?

oh dang I didn't think about that! I think you can vote "I am Elon Musk"

the only social media i use is tumblr. don't go there

xp
wait a minute: banned from twitter, lives in Florida... 🤔

where am i supposed to post unreasonably niche observations now? a thought i've only just seen.

Fuck no I haven’t deleted my account. Twitter is fucking amazing and has been an enormous net positive in my professional life. Instagram and Facebook can go to hell though.

l-r: my 401k match, me

me reaction to the news that a social media platform will now be owned by an evil billionaire pic.twitter.com/1tEMrlyjvW

— bolty (@AmbJohnBoIton) April 25, 2022

I'm just going to simply mute Elon Musk as a topic and live with whatever happens.

Years ago. I thought recently of re-upping, but given the current news I'll pass.

twitter is a website for lazy narcissists who are wrong about everything

hell yeah

Will there still be a board of directors at twitter or will MUSK be dictator

I chose I will never quit even though I might quit someday. Elon buying Twitter didn't make me want to immediately leave, but I could imagine him running it into the ground. It's perfectly fine now and I'm on there a lot, following the news and my various personal interests. I actively mute anything that doesn't interest me or that I don't want to see, and I steer clear of personalities I outright despise.

elon hasn't bought it yet, deal will close in 3-6 months. so no point quitting now

Chose will never quit but depending on what changes get brought in I might. Change of ownership by itself not enough for me, tech giants always owned by horrible people.

I don't see the point of treating the overpriced battery on wheels man as an exceptional scumbag, they're all horrible.

Stopped using Twitter in late 2016, exactly 10 years to the day after I joined. Didn't delete my account, but basically unfollowed everyone. Occasionally use it when I want to find something out in real-time, or to read a thread which someone has linked to here. Don't miss it at all.

Deleted my account 3 weeks or so before Musk joined the board. Was no longer enjoyable or useful to me.

Agree with Calzino that Musk isn't more pernicious than other billionaires. For those who plan to stick with Twitter his plans to loosen the moderation of it are probably still troubling, tho.

I like it, I mainly just follow all the retro gaming people and it's all good fun. I follow some comedians too, but have generally found that I only enjoy Blain Capatch stuff. Hopefully whatever happens once the deal is in won't affect my usage, we'll see.

Musk is worse/worst on Twitter due to the performative petulance in recent years even if that's mostly 'just' insults against others. But this is pretty much just the 'is Trump the figurehead worse than countless lower profile Republicans? Actually...' argument.

Worse no, more annoying yes. But annoyance is a valid reason to quit a social network, ofc.

No plans to quit. I'm rarely pissed off by content.

twitter is a website for lazy narcissists who are wrong about everything

my running assessment has been "Twitter encourages psychological projection to a point that it feels like that's all the site does"

Never signed in but read it. No ads!!!

Twitter can’t be all bad, it has @Cats of Yore

and fantastic one joke accounts like politicians hair on football managers

it was all downhill after Your Aunt Diane stopped tweeting in 2012

https://twitter.com/YourAuntDiane

I agree tech company owners are universally despicable, but this was the last major thing I read about Musk so I think there's a case to be made that he's even on the bad side of the tech billionaire spectrum: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-03-25/black-tesla-employees-fremont-plant-racism-california-lawsuit

otoh, I still have an IG account and I don't think Elon has facilitated a genocide yet, I'm typing this on a macbook etc.

https://i.imgur.com/IP36jUH.jpg

the chaff to wheat ratio on twitter is still too high though better obv than FB (actually FB has gotten better in this regard as I've unfollowed a million things and only look at posts from people I know, but I'm tired of the platform and UI now). that said, twitter has a unique ability to completely ruin my day so I'm going to stop looking at it so often. I avoided it for many years and only got really sucked in during the last year and a half.

Well ok but...twitter users are not the consumers of twitter products, which are advertising spots and user data. I don't really subscribe to this idea's most extreme versions—if you think of users as unpaid workers you have Terranova's "free labor"; if you prefer to think of them as the product being sold to the real consumers (advertisers) there's Smythe's "audience commodity"; or, popularly, "if the 'product' is free, you are the product." Those theories exclude a lot of what users get out of platforms & broadcast media, but nonetheless it's a fact that user-generated content creates the platform's value, so I don't think it's ridiculous to think about one's participation in social media as different from needing to consume goods and services under capitalism.

I'd say that a very small percentage of tweets are creating any value

sorry, I can't tell if that's just a joek or not

Yeah but I like my vices to be sucky and addictive

Music and history people are on Bluesky and I just want to talk about music and history, also lots of gay and trans stuff which isn't exactly me but makes me feel comfortable to be around. Just follow music accounts and block all the resistance libs / #FBPE crowd and you can have my nice only moderately addictive and not sucky experience.

Actually Bluesky is getting a bit better as there is just more people but without that engagement by annoyance that many platforms go for (from an insecurity that the product isn't enough on its own).

Wonder if Bluesky now is what twitter was like in the early days! Low-ish engagement but 'wholesome'?

Watching Dr Louks be on twitter and thriving is inspiring.

Guys, I adore your enthusiasm towards reading my thesis, but please stop requesting it on the university’s depository. I can’t lift the embargo as publishers prefer/require it and I’ve been getting hundreds of emails per day for over a month. I’m really sorry!

— Dr Ally Louks (@DrAllyLouks) December 30, 2024

good for her, I guess. I think I am better off not spending much time thinking about Twitter main characters.

There are like 3-5 people on Twitter who are both still posting and whose posts I still want to see. Sadly I feel I need to keep it to receive the odd DM for music stuff.

Zero compulsion to look at bluesky, which is good. I actually like it solely as a place to put random thoughts that have no place elsewhere and they no one will ever see.

I remember when Twitter was like that, a sort of word hole that nobody I knew used. I used to post on it when high or whatever, then around 2014 I started a new job and my boss was mega into Twitter and asked what my handle was on my first day. Had to go and delete a load of shit before giving it to him.

I got Twitter in early 2009, linked it to my phone number and "post by SMS" (dunno when they got rid of that) - then I moved back to China, my phone number expired, someone else got it. So when family members tagged me in something this person would get a text message, assume it was spam and reply to it with "FUCK OFF" - which would then be posted as a reply on Twitter. Eventually my mum asked me gently about it and I had to get a new VPN and try to figure out wtf was going on. Not sure any of them believed me when I explained it.

lmao

at some point years ago I forgot my username and twitter wouldn’t let me recover my password without it.

https://twitter.com/home

gone!

Vaxxed?

Grok was asked if Musk was a Nazi and self-destructed

can’t wait to do my banking on the CSAM app

Musk told them to disable the CSAM feature and all content disappeared

i can't help judging people who are still on twitter. at dinner a few months ago, a friend mentioned offhandedly that he enjoyed twitter as a source of funny videos, and i felt like he was admitting to voting for trump.

he didn't even say it apologetically, tho; i got the sense he hadn't really considered that he shouldn't be on twitter. i suppose i just see so much anti-twitter sentiment here and elsewhere (like on bluesky) that it just feels like a given to me now.

Twitter is quitting me :-(

I'm just glad there's no more fash social media now

xxpost You should have sent him a Bluesky invite and a list of problematic posters not to follow.

Practically the first post on Bluesky after opening it is about twitter being down, its like a concern troll.

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/x-down-twitter-not-working-status-b2902008.html

Bluesky is like someone constantly cyberstalking their ex.

Just an inferiority complex isn’t it. Reddit used to do it with Digg way back when.

“I curated a followlist of people on bluesky who talk about twitter all the time, why are they so boring”

did he re-name it X to make it impossible to mute the word on bluesky?

I'm not really seeing any discussion of it on my bluesky feed

well twitter is back up so there's not much to talk about

politics bluesky was definitely obsessed with twitter for a long time but it's dwindling ime. it is kinda sad how some people will still post screenshots of only-"famous"-on-twitter losers' tweets to dunk on them, but oh well

When my feed is more dunks than news & culture, I tune out (and sometimes unfollow the dunkers).

Twitter-wise, they banned Amy Klobuchar's official account earlier this week.

I see people on Bluesky talking about Twitter in three main ways:

-Actual news events related to the company, like Grok generating CSAM
-Surfacing unhinged tweets from people like Elon Musk or Bill Ackman or Stephen Miller and using them as evidence of how modern-day Twitter is cooking the brains of the people who obsessively use it
-Complaining that many politicians, media organizations, and public figures continue to use it, in light of what it's become

I don't get the sense that any of this is motivated by an "inferiority complex"; it's just that activities on Twitter continue to be notable to people who are interested in politics and media, as much of the Bluesky userbase is.

we unfortunately need to understand that the government/media complex stews in this environment

https://bsky.app/profile/seamas.bsky.social/post/3mckkuzsicc2r

https://bsky.app/profile/seamas.bsky.social/post/3mckkuzsicc2r

Yeah ok point taken there’s a lot that needs to be called out on Twitter now it’s mostly not an inferiority complex.

I haven’t been active on Bluesky long and my feed is not yet very broad so I had stuff like this in mind:

https://bsky.app/profile/deejaygeejaygee.bsky.social/post/3mckqfonnus2j

“people talk about the benefits of being on bluesky instead of twitter, but I can't see any bluesky posts that'll get shown in black & white with foreboding music underneath in future documentaries”

That’s what we call “a joke” it’s not really indicative of much

bsky doesn’t talk about x too much but it definitely talks about bsky too much

I definitely prefer bluesky to twitter but I just wish the scolding would stop, tired of people I like going on about "IF YOU EVER USE TWITTER/AI YOU ARE DEAD TO ME FOREVER NO EXCUSES YOU ARE 100% A NAZI" - I mean yes, I also fucking hate Twitter and AI but it's not useful to anyone to continually spiral and lash out.

Not microblogging at all is the way to go imo (I know it's not an option for those with things to promote).

Similar to photoshop, there's already people being falsely accused of making AI music

https://twitter.com/home

gone!

It's back...

ILX mute function when

(xpost)

i can't help judging people who are still on twitter. at dinner a few months ago, a friend mentioned offhandedly that he enjoyed twitter as a source of funny videos, and i felt like he was admitting to voting for trump.

― jaymc, Friday, 16 January 2026 15:48 (one month ago)

This happened again but with my brother. He asked whether I was still on Twitter as a preface to recapping some dumb controversy he saw on there. I said, half-joking, that I thought we all collectively agreed to leave Twitter, and he seemed slightly confused.

I think perhaps more of the people I followed on Twitter (liberal journalists and other media folks) decamped to Bluesky, whereas the people he follows (leftists and people who post about basketball, I'm guessing) were more likely to have stayed there.

I still see a lot of music and film writers I follow on Twitter.

Yup, quite a few critics on there still

Twitter is really the place to go if you want to see media folks make 'jestergooning' jokes for two weeks straight.

Obv. I am in my own media bubbles, but whenever I hear about what's happening on Twitter, it's always unhinged stuff posted by Silicon Valley CEOs and hustle bros, Republican politicians and other professional racists, gamer/incel dudes, etc. I assume there must be some worthwhile discourse over there, but I'm not hearing about it.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/more-scientists-choose-bluesky-over-twitter/

As someone who as a kid wanted to be a meteorologist, and who still follows weather forecasts closely, the weather people and storm chasers all still gather on there, and the National Weather Service still has active local accounts there as well. So between that and more academic-leaning literary folks (the algorithm gave me a torrent of Michael Silverblatt tributes this week), that’s what I’m finding. Not much right-wing stuff gets in my feed. I often consider deactivating my account but haven’t.

Obv. I am in my own media bubbles, but whenever I hear about what's happening on Twitter, it's always unhinged stuff posted by Silicon Valley CEOs and hustle bros, Republican politicians and other professional racists, gamer/incel dudes, etc. I assume there must be some worthwhile discourse over there, but I'm not hearing about it.

― Venus of Willendorf on Golf (jaymc), Wednesday, 18 February 2026 bookmarkflaglink

Fixed

lol I just opened up Bsky and saw this: https://bsky.app/profile/weeder.bsky.social/post/3mf5vda5cp22u

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:6ixhocm5tk3fsqbclrbq36mf/bafkreihvm5plvpx7iw273lhd4npuo2swdiqn4ekdgncdj74hsqtueb3soe@jpeg