The Guardian has announced that they will no longer cite Twitter.
We wanted to let readers know that we will no longer post on any official Guardian editorial accounts on the social media site X (formerly Twitter). We think that the benefits of being on X are now outweighed by the negatives and that resources could be better used promoting our journalism elsewhere.
This is something we have been considering for a while given the often disturbing content promoted or found on the platform, including far-right conspiracy theories and racism. The US presidential election campaign served only to underline what we have considered for a long time: that X is a toxic media platform and that its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use its influence to shape political discourse.
Exactly right. Musk has destroyed the utility of the social media site he spent so much money on. You should flee the hellhole, too.
Now we just have to get the Guardian to quit putting up with transphobes…
Stephen King is leaving Twitter
Full List of Celebrities Quitting X After Elon Musk Helps Trump Win
Why Free Press Is Leaving Twitter
“Bluesky Has the Juice”: Celebrities Flee “Toxic” X for Rival Social Media Site
Spain’s La Vanguardia joins the Guardian in leaving X, citing ‘toxic content’
Overdue.
But good.
Opened Bluesky account. Closing Twitter.
I left Twitter before it even became X.
Does that make me an ‘influencer”?
Twitter was useful. X is just toxic garbage.
So far no replacement for Twitter has shown up.
This should be easy. Just copy Twitter and change the name to something like
Twitter II, Child of Twitter, Chirp, NotMuskTwitter, Classic Twitter, etc..
Maybe it will be Bluesky.
It won’t be Mastodon.
Mastodon is decentralized and doesn’t have the capacity to be a Twitter replacement.
It won’t be Threads. Wrong format and besides it is part of another toxic internet company, Facebook/Meta.
Tomorrow is my one year anniversary of my departure from Twitter.
PZ @ #7 — Congrats. I closed my Twitter account when Musk bought it. That was no big deal because I rarely opened Twitter anyway.
However, my addiction is to Facebook, and mainly Instagram reels which I view on Facebook. Although I feel like I should drop it for various reasons, I’m loathe to do so because that’s where I connect with a handful of my old friends…true tot he platform, a bunch of aging boomers. In a few years, we’ll all be gone.
A major Seedish newspaper just quit twitter, too.