"Ah yes, Twitter—or X. Whatever you call it, the social media site was Musk’s primary tool to elect Trump. In Bloomberg’s Tech Daily newsletter for November 7, Kurt Wagner writes that Musk “turned his feed into a Trump-inspired billboard for his more than 200 million followers,” that it “became a major source of anti-immigrant conspiracy theories,” that Musk “re-shared posts from the former president’s supporters, not all of them accurate,” and that Musk turned X into “a much more powerful version of Truth Social.”"
If you’ve just left Twitter/X welcome! You’ve come to the right place.
There is no algorithm here so we encourage lots of following and “retweeting”. You can also follow #hashtags as well.
Posts are sometimes called toots. Retweets are sometimes called boosts or retoots.
If you want people to follow you, be sure to have a profile picture, something in your description about you, and some engagement: posts, comments, stars, boosts. People also usually do a post that is an introduction to them (be sure to use a hashtag, #introduction) and it can help to pin that to your profile so people can boost it.
One thing we always try to do is add alt text to images for multiple reasons, you can read about that here: wetdry.world/@ipg/113449765700…
People have added additional tips in the comments b
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If you’ve just left Twitter/X welcome! You’ve come to the right place.
There is no algorithm here so we encourage lots of following and “retweeting”. You can also follow #hashtags as well.
Posts are sometimes called toots. Retweets are sometimes called boosts or retoots.
If you want people to follow you, be sure to have a profile picture, something in your description about you, and some engagement: posts, comments, stars, boosts. People also usually do a post that is an introduction to them (be sure to use a hashtag, #introduction) and it can help to pin that to your profile so people can boost it.
One thing we always try to do is add alt text to images for multiple reasons, you can read about that here: wetdry.world/@ipg/113449765700…
People have added additional tips in the comments below which you may want to check out.
Many of us (all?) are grieving the US election now so comedy is appreciated.
It took longer, than I expected, but here we are: it seems like this account now brings continuously more #traffic to heise.de than #X (#Twitter) in its entirety, although it only has ¼ of the follower number (and many of them don't seem to be active anymore). I'll prepare some graphs after the weekend.
Vorerst ist das hier der offizielle Mastodon-Account von heise online.
Wird jetzt erst einmal händisch befüllt, aber wir haben schon weitergehende Pläne und wollen hier mehr machen.
If you want to remove your X account but are worried that someone might register your username later, do this:
1. Open 2 different browsers in their private windows 2. In the first browser: Log in to your Twitter account. 3. In the second browser, go through the account creation process, add something like "Deactivated" as a name. Skip everything else. 4. On both: Navigate to Settings and privacy. 5. Under Your account, select Account information. 6. Update your Username to something different. 7. Save the changes. 8. Immediately rename the other "Deactivated" user name to your own username. 9. Take a full data backup 10. Continue on deactivating the real now renamed user.
By altering your username and email, your original handle becomes available for immediate use so you can register it to yourself as an "empty shell" account.
I just proofed these instructions working by finally deactivating my account. Haven't posted anything this year.
I will not spend any thought ever again to Truth Social, Gab, X and dark onion websites. They
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If you want to remove your X account but are worried that someone might register your username later, do this:
1. Open 2 different browsers in their private windows 2. In the first browser: Log in to your Twitter account. 3. In the second browser, go through the account creation process, add something like "Deactivated" as a name. Skip everything else. 4. On both: Navigate to Settings and privacy. 5. Under Your account, select Account information. 6. Update your Username to something different. 7. Save the changes. 8. Immediately rename the other "Deactivated" user name to your own username. 9. Take a full data backup 10. Continue on deactivating the real now renamed user.
By altering your username and email, your original handle becomes available for immediate use so you can register it to yourself as an "empty shell" account.
I just proofed these instructions working by finally deactivating my account. Haven't posted anything this year.
I will not spend any thought ever again to Truth Social, Gab, X and dark onion websites. They are all the same - not healthy for anyone. Please leave now.
More or less stopped using X in 2022, but now that I have not made a single update for over a year, I have finalized my statement: X finally deleted, for good. I will not support X, Gab, Truth Social or any other criminally extremist alt-tech social media.
I joined Twitter in 2008, making 7,500 posts through the years. I deactivated my X account today.
I greatly curtailed my usage of the platform since November 2023, when my employer @Flipboard pulled back from engagement. And I haven't posted since April but kept it open for work reasons (to monitor news, etc.).
Why today? The U.S. election made clear how many of my fellow Americans live entirely in "alternative facts" ecosystems. I no longer wish to participate in such a platform — so rife with unchecked misinformation and disinformation ... basically an outrage machine where the algorithm rewards lies and conspiracy theories.
If you're still on X, why?
I screenshot my profile for posterity. And here's also Flipboard's 2023 announcement.
Elon #Musk is already the globally most influential fascist. (No, I'm not talking just about #X, formerly #Twitter.)
For those wondering about #ElonMusk's unprecedented power in satellites 🛰 and mobile internet-based communications, here is the #Starlink background story again (via #NYT):
Attached: 1 image
@noondlyt
Update:
#Musk background story (no paywall, #NewYorker):
It features #PulitzerPrice-winning journalist #RonanFarrow, who joined forces with other journalists:
https://archive.
