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> But I was on Twitter since 2007, and built a meaningful part of my career on it, and I won’t be posting at all, for the foreseeable future Commit and delete

> But I was on Twitter since 2007, and built a meaningful part of my career on it, and I won’t be posting at all, for the foreseeable future Commit and delete your account then. Folks love to complain but rarely follow through.

nkozyra 3y ago
> Folks love to complain but rarely follow through. Traffic down 14%-19% (depending on source) in the last year indicates people are following through. https://www.pcmag.com/news/twitter-traffic-on-downward-trend-since-elon-musks-takeover https://www.pcmag.com/news/twitter-traffic-on-downward-trend...
- unboxingelf 3y ago
  I mean the lot that complains publicly often does not follow through. I deleted my circa 2009 account earlier this year. It was fun while it lasted, just like MySpace.
- chrisco255 3y ago
  Would love to see a graph going back over the past decade. Otherwise how can you tell if there are multiyear cycles in Twitter's engagement or if the trend had begun long before Musk's takeover? Would also need to see an analysis of other social media sites to see how their engagement has fared in the same timeframe to tell if it's a broader trend or Twitter specifically.
  - nkozyra 3y ago
    > Otherwise how can you tell if there are multiyear cycles in Twitter's engagement or if the trend had begun long before Musk's takeover? If you have access to SimilarWeb (where the data came from) you can see it's a new trend. I can't share that but they do a free trial if you want to check it out.
lapcat 3y ago
> Commit and delete your account then. Folks love to complain but rarely follow through. The account is now locked. But deleting your account leaves it open for trolls to take over the username and pretend to be you.
- nkozyra 3y ago
  > But deleting your account leaves it open for trolls to take over the username and pretend to be you Another unfortunate new policy is that inactive accounts will also be severed eventually and up for grabs. https://www.zdnet.com/article/twitter-says-its-purging-inactive-accounts-what-you-need-to-know/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/twitter-says-its-purging-inact...

nkozyra 3y ago

> Folks love to complain but rarely follow through. Traffic down 14%-19% (depending on source) in the last year indicates people are following through. https://www.pcmag.com/news/twitter-traffic-on-downward-trend-since-elon-musks-takeover https://www.pcmag.com/news/twitter-traffic-on-downward-trend...

unboxingelf 3y ago
I mean the lot that complains publicly often does not follow through. I deleted my circa 2009 account earlier this year. It was fun while it lasted, just like MySpace.
chrisco255 3y ago
Would love to see a graph going back over the past decade. Otherwise how can you tell if there are multiyear cycles in Twitter's engagement or if the trend had begun long before Musk's takeover? Would also need to see an analysis of other social media sites to see how their engagement has fared in the same timeframe to tell if it's a broader trend or Twitter specifically.
- nkozyra 3y ago
  > Otherwise how can you tell if there are multiyear cycles in Twitter's engagement or if the trend had begun long before Musk's takeover? If you have access to SimilarWeb (where the data came from) you can see it's a new trend. I can't share that but they do a free trial if you want to check it out.

lapcat 3y ago

> Commit and delete your account then. Folks love to complain but rarely follow through. The account is now locked. But deleting your account leaves it open for trolls to take over the username and pretend to be you.

nkozyra 3y ago
> But deleting your account leaves it open for trolls to take over the username and pretend to be you Another unfortunate new policy is that inactive accounts will also be severed eventually and up for grabs. https://www.zdnet.com/article/twitter-says-its-purging-inactive-accounts-what-you-need-to-know/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/twitter-says-its-purging-inact...