Get off Twitter while you can.

[icymist]

Link to tweet

?s=20&t=AHxFZK81sKNlOMQCV3fsGg

[Alexander Of Assyria]

1. If you wanted to destroy Twitter on purpose Musk is doing a great job...makes you wonder.

[OAITW r.2.0]

14. It's like Musk took $44BB dollars and started a bonfire.

For what purpose? To ruin a media that made fun of him? I suspect that he doesn't really know his customers - the people who are buying his Tesla cars. They aren't pro-Big Oil Republicans. He may see this Twitter fiasco bleed into his Tesla business.

Well done, Elon!

[OMGWTF]

15. Absolutely! I have driven a Chevy Volt for eight years thought my next car would be a Tesla

but no more. I'd be embarrassed to own one now. There are so many great electric cars coming on the market.

[JCMach1]

36. Just got a free battery replacement on my 2011, so I won't ever need a Tesla

[Rebl2]

41. I hope

Tesla goes broke

[JCMach1]

43. I hope Musk goes broke

[Rebl2]

48. 👍

[Kennah]

49. From your keyboard to God's ear

[NullTuples]

24. Burning it down has great ROI for pro-fascist very large scale investors

With one investment, take down the world's largest platform for resistance to find each other, share info & organize?

You can't put a price tag on that.

[Delphinus]

39. True.

It took me forever to understand Twitter but I like it. I'm not on Instagram and only on groups on Facebook, but Twitter I will miss.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

53. Taking down and plugging the sewer that is Twitter is fine with me. Use the phone.

[NullTuples]

56. That is a nonsensical response. Calls are 1-to-1. Not a way to disseminate information efficiently

And they're also siloed meaning you can only call & share info with people you already know and trust with your phone number.

[Tetrachloride]

2. Some of us have twitter blocked or temporarily disabled

what does the tweet say ?

[icymist]

3. Here you go...

1/ Just want to put this news in plain language for people.

Senior people at Twitter have resigned in the last 48 hours. We now now why. They said in private Slack channels that @elonmusk is so desperate to recoup his money, he’s taking crazy risks with YOUR privacy and safety.
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2/ Right now, Twitter is extremely hackable. That puts every user here at extreme risk for DM leaks, identity theft and surveillance.

Elon doesn’t care. He wants his money. So they resigned. And top lawyers told Twitter employees to get whistleblower protections.

[d_r]

5. thank you

[NullTuples]

25. The gist of it is that the top people who left were the ones telling him how to not get sued

for violating laws and regulations that can trigger large fines & the like.

Like Trump, he doesn't care for others knowing more than him so he told them to buzz off.

Which they did.

[Freethinker65]

4. Class action lawsuits to follow?

I deactivated last week. I assumed all would be deleted in 30 days.

[brooklynite]

6. When @JOEBIDEN or @POTUS starts to follow me, I'll worry.

[ananda]

7. Question. Can the old Twitter employees band up...

and start a new social media site?

[2naSalit]

11. That's what...

I am hoping for.

[ananda]

47. me too

..

[ToxMarz]

21. Someone could, it's not rocket science

At this point the knowledge to do it is well established. It just takes money. And all the money wants to make money on their money, which is where it falls apart since a reliable reputable social media company is not gonna generate the return the capitalists require.

[mwooldri]

26. Co-founder of Twitter is working on "Blue Sky".

A kind of "decentralised Twitter". Been in the works since 2019. Idea is that users own their own data and if X social network is no longer a good fit for them, they can move to Y social network easily. Interesting concept.

[we can do it]

50. He's in cahoots with musk.

[NullTuples]

27. There are at least 20 as we speak, and that's the problem.

Twitter had a decade-plus of inertia & has become a platform where people who would normally not do so, find each other due to common interests or goals. Despite being in demographics that otherwise wouldn't overlap.

Every one of the alternatives is siloed by demographic, interest, etc.. - there's no cross pollination of news & ideas between them.

[Strelnikov_]

8. What does quitting accomplish?

Your data will still be floating around in some database that just got sold.

[NullTuples]

29. Not if you downloaded an archive & then deleted your entire tweet history when he bought it.

That may be possible, but I'd guess that at some point soon he will block it as that data is money. And the less ethical restrictions he puts on how that data is sold and used, the more money he'll make from it. That's one reason the top data security / ethics people quit recently.

[Captain Zero]

9. Soon. All of Twitters users will fit In a Tesla

Nt

[2naSalit]

12. +1

[womanofthehills]

59. Elon posted the opposite

Link to tweet

?s=46&t=PUeksDTPjilIdBVIfIhjnw

It’s probably like the Joe Rogan thing - when everyone hated him, he got millions of new listeners.

Twitter is world wide with only about 20% of users being in US. Japan had almost as many Twitter users as US. World users of Twitter is expanding but one million American users quit.

[TlalocW]

10. My account has no real personal info in it

I'm stick around for the plane crash.

[ShazzieB]

18. Same here.

My profile is completely anonymous, and I've hardly posted at all.

[Tree Lady]

20. I just checked and only info they have

Is my email. I never gave my phone or any address and I used it just to follow people I never tweeted. I will delete if things get worse. Right now I rarely even look at it.

[jmbar2]

28. Same here

I have no personal posts, only exchanges with other daytraders and political posters. Not worried.

[NullTuples]

31. If you use the phone app, your data is not anonymous at all & it may access to your personal info

That's why so many corporations push so hard for people to use their apps "for free".

[OneGrassRoot]

54. That's the rub. n/t

[NullTuples]

55. And that data can include your location at any moment, your contacts, your phone records, your texts

So many people don't realize just how silently invasive phone apps can be if created and run by an unethical company.

[Emrys]

38. Same here. It's quite entertaining once you get past being annoyed, then it gets annoying some more.

Never tweeted, never interacted with anything on Twitter except voting in the odd poll and reporting some accounts for being beyond the pale.

I just read it on my laptop with Firefox and Ghostery and a suitably potent antivirus program, and sometimes post stuff from it on DU.

[icymist]

13. Related: Elon Musk is putting Twitter at risk of billions in fines, warns company lawyer

Meanwhile, Musk’s personal lawyer is telling people, ‘Elon puts rockets into space, he’s not afraid of the FTC.’

witter’s privacy and security teams are in turmoil after Elon Musk’s changes to the service bypassed its standard data governance processes. Now, a company lawyer is encouraging employees to seek whistleblower protection “if you feel uncomfortable about anything you’re being asked to do.”

The company’s chief privacy officer Damien Kieran, chief information security officer Lea Kissner, and chief compliance officer Marianne Fogarty have all resigned, according to two employees and an internal message seen by The Verge. Kissner confirmed their departure in a tweet on Thursday.

In a note posted to Twitter’s Slack and viewable to all staff that was obtained by The Verge, an attorney on the company’s privacy team wrote, “Elon has shown that his only priority with Twitter users is how to monetize them. I do not believe he cares about the human rights activists. the dissidents, our users in un-monetizable regions, and all the other users who have made Twitter the global town square you have all spent so long building, and we all love.”

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/10/23451198/twitter-ftc-elon-musk-lawyer-changes-fine-warning

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If you wish to remain on Twitter, go ahead and trust the guy who thought an accelerated cruise control was fine and dandy as a self-drive mechanism.

[NullTuples]

32. He feels more and more like Trump with every news story.

[icymist]

34. He sure does!

[48656c6c6f20]

16. So hackers are going to know I like pizza?

Holy freak that's way too much info.

[icymist]

19. Do you use the same Twitter password in other places?

Do you use applications you found at Twitter? That's what's going to be out there, not to mention any other information they can find.

[48656c6c6f20]

22. No. And I use seperate accounts for social media.

Like I said, if they want to know I'll tell em. I'm a Lou's person. Sometimes I'm a Gino's if I want tavern style.

[NullTuples]

33. Do you use the Twitter phone/tablet app? If so, potentially all that data is theirs, too. And his.

[Evolve Dammit]

35. I think you either need a sarcasm emoji or a dose of reality.

[48656c6c6f20]

45. Hey just because other people don't take security serious

Doesn't mean I don't. Trust me. I segregate life on phones. I have a work phone, a posting to social media web sites phone and then I have my friends and family only phone. I don't need a dose of reality because I know what da fuck I'm doing and I have the means to protect myself.
So do you want to know what kind of pizza I like. If not step off.

[Evolve Dammit]

63. Sure. What kind do you like?

[Evolve Dammit]

64. It's a complex world. I did not mean to P you off. I like the Bronx (pepperoni/ green pepper).

[VGNonly]

17. Please proceed Gov-Elon-or

[johnnyfins]

23. No offense to DU Twitter users...

...but it always struck me as a "Look at ME" platform. much like Facebook. I know there are communication benefits, but Twitter always rubbed me the wrong way for some reason. Thanks Elon, for fucking it up and out of existence...

[jmbar2]

30. There are communities that form on Twitter, just like DU.

My community is daytraders. They post really good analysis, videos of trading techniques, stock news, etc. There is nothing else comparable.

Most of the good posters also have Discords, so if Twitter gets too messed up, we just go to the individual Discords. But having all the communities cross-posting is best. I'm not seeing any changes so far in my communities, but we are prepared to move quickly to Discords if it gets too messed up.

Some of the traders are making a lot of money shorting TSLA. I don't trade that one, but there's a small silver lining for some in Mush's self-immolation.

[NullTuples]

37. I belong to a number of overlapping groupings or webs on Twitter.

Autistics, Neurodivergent, LGBTQ, transgender, Democratic Party, anti-fascism, disabilities, etc, etc.

Those networks were focused not on "look at me" but on, "are you okay", "hey, this just happened", "we need to organize to stop this" and so on.

And because it's been around for a decade-plus, those networks were not siloed and insular as they tend to be on other platforms. News quickly spread from one to another. This resulted in both an outpouring of support for each other, but also political and social organizing and actions.

That is going to be real loss, especially in the fight against Republicans and other pro-fascism groups worldwide.

[PlutosHeart]

46. I think that same thing. Major loss.

There is nothing like it in effectiveness in organizing and news spreading.
If his goal is to shutter free speech and information he seems well on the way to it.

[jeffreyi]

57. I use it mostly for wildfire and weather updates

And at times this is essential information. I think I will excuse myself from Twitter, though, if I can figure out how.

[Bristlecone]

40. He got funding from The Saudi's and Chinese as I understand it

Trump’s Truth platform is failing.

Perhaps, Elon is trying to destroy Twitter from the inside out at the direction of outside influencers that would like to lift Trump up financially.

Twitter goes away, Truth gets a lift, Trump gets money

Maybe it’s all just a laundering scheme.

[womanofthehills]

51. Prince Alwaleed has been a major stockholder at Twitter for 10 yrs

Nothing new here. He rolled over his investment to Elon.

[RustyWheels]

42. Deleted my account last week.

Done !!

[Justice matters.]

44. I had a burner account with zero personal information...

Always accessed it throughout my VPN (Surfshark).

So to leave it there LOCKED permanently, I just entered a false birth date that made me having less than the required age at signup.

They still have the online burner email account I created for registering and any email I get from that fascists-terrorists cesspool now will be flagged as SPAM to go straight into the spam folder.

[Tetrachloride]

52. Even though my account is of no consequence,

my email might be less than anonymous.

Account deactivated.

[Mosby]

58. I like twitter.

I get to say what I want, unlike some other places.

There are trolls everywhere, including DU.

[womanofthehills]

60. I like Twitter too

So much info if you follow the right people. Also, a recent study of Twitter showed way more Dems post than Republicans - almost two to one. Probably because study mentioned - most people on Twitter were college educated and between the ages of 25 to 35.

[DFW]

62. I'm not sure how to do that.

Don't you first have to be ON Twitter before you can get OFF Twitter?