[Air-L] Twitter Journalist Suspensions

[Richard Forno]

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 at 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
> -- 
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