I've been on twitter since 2009 and have 100k+ tweet. Since they've killed all third-party clients I've basically stopped using twitter, and have no intention of using the (bad) official client. Good job Elon!
to all the people who claim this, i wish there was a RemindMe! feature to check back in a few months
People who have invested years of their lives writing thousands of tweets aren't giving up investments so easily. This is like real life investments or relationships, it takes a lot to break them
The difference here is that Twitter had been going downhill for a while before the recent changes. In 2022 people were already using it grudgingly, out of inertia. Not addiction or excitement.
Even before Musk, I consciously anticipated that a disruption to my chosen chronological feed client would mean the end of my time on Twitter. I prepared for it. I've started to wean and haven't missed it as much as I assumed I would. It's a relief as much of an imposition. I've tried out other ways of browsing content.
There's no one service that will end up being exactly what Twitter was, but neither had Twitter been for a while. The various degradations of the experience over the last few months only had to be bad enough to get us to realize what we already sensed, that Twitter is in its Facebook era. It will still be running in 5 years because it's too big to die quickly. But it's on the downward slope of its cultural relevance. A year from now it will be the equivalent of that-site-your-grandparents-use.
The value of past tweets, like the value of old newspapers, is very low. It's not investment that matters but habits. Those people who's habits haven been disrupted are already disrupted so moving on for them is much easier.
I used TweetDelete to wipe out my 30,000 tweets to help me along
I've been having more fun on Mastodon this past month than I had on Twitter for the past year or so. It feels more like an old-school web forum somehow.
> People who have invested years of their lives writing thousands of tweets aren't giving up investments so easily.
I dunno, my Twitter posting rate has been dropping because there's enough people on the Fediboat now to make it interesting and I only have a certain amount of attention span to go around.
