Btw... on the subject of 'what we do' and Twitter this insightful podcast with Emily Bell is excellent: https://www.cjr.org/podcast/the-tow-centers-emily-bell-musks-twitter-is-open... And... Thank you Rick... I am about 80-90% decided on making this decision. It's difficult because it's also one way I connect with people in networks I need to access *outside academia* for research. Emma On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 8:34 AM Richard Forno <rick@rickf.org> wrote:
TweetDelete.Net is your friend for this, and what I've recommended others to use to purge much of their Twitter footprint. I used it for years to delete all tweets after 2 weeks, but you can do them all in one fell swoop -- though you might need to pay $10 to do more than a handful at a time. It doesn't handle DMs or Favorites, though. (Mastodon has auto-delete as a built-in feature already, which is great, btw!)
FWIW saying I'm leaving my Twitter account up just as a placeholder and to receive DMs from the (few) people I care about still residing on the platform. But I pretty much never check it and/or even glance at what's "trending" over there anymore.
Despite the constant stream of outrage and controversy, I suspect silence and a lack of user 'engagement' on Twitter the platform will do more damage to the Chief Twit's snowflakey ego and Twitter's clickbait-driven financials as a form of #resistance than anything else.
-- rick @rickf@indieweb.social
On 15 Dec 2022, at 22:47, Dr. Emma Briant via Air-L wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
I’m sure all will agree that the mass censorship of, I think now 11 journalists from major news organisations today by Elon Musk is incredibly disturbing. I am wondering how one deletes all one’s tweets? Anyone know? I’m considering doing this but leaving my account as a placeholder, so I am not leaving that data there, and removing myself at this point from the platform. I was hoping not to do this, given that I network in Twitter for my research on propaganda and develop contacts. But this obviously crosses such a line. People need to push back somehow not just move to mastodon , but I’m honestly not sure how. I’m trying to process the implications and wondered other’s thoughts on this latest development.
Thanks, Emma -- Dr Emma L Briant
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