Do you plan to leave Twitter after the Elon Musk takeover?
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Most of the US has really weak data privacy laws, but in the EU I think the ownership model won't change much with how Twitter does or doesn't comply. GDPR legal experts will know better, but at least with my company we're a private US-based company that does a lot of business in Europe and we had to comply with most/all/salient parts of GDPR.
US wise, I wouldn't expect much will change, privately owned vs. shareholder owned companies doesn't change much for data privacy. But the US has basically no real data privacy laws, so we'll probably just get the European ones "for free" as they are applied out of convenience.
I won't be leaving, but I don't personally post. I only follow a few artist and none of them are really out there with their opinions and just post art updates and tour info. So it doesn't really mean much to me, but I get it if people decide to no longer support the platform.
Twitter is already filled with right wing bigots who aren't banned or moderated. Musk isn't changing much as far as that goes.
Nah
I'll stay unless you have to pay to tweet or access the site
Or if they have ads, like ones you need to see before using the app
I'll stay unless you have to pay to tweet or access the site
Or if they have ads, like ones you need to see before using the app
I see no reason for me to leave the way I use it I barely engage with any toxic accounts at all. I just navigate the stuff I like and if someone even does anything toxic in terms of comments or anything I just block them its pretty rare though. Theres so many things that can be added to twitter to make it more useful easier to use so I hope that gets added.
Things can always get worse. Unbanning Trump would be one way things could get worse.
Only thing I've used it for In at least 8 years is Wario64, so I'll keep doing that as long as it stays around
I'll stay, I barely use it but it's useful every once in a while. If Musk is gonna fix me not getting ppl trying to sell their Onlyfans to me daily that'll be good. Idk why I get a daily recommendation from someone half naked.
I already deleted my Twitter account a month ago and seeing how shit's going down right now that was a good decision in foresight.
Yeah I might just have a burner account to follow some accounts but I won't engage the site in anyway.
Nope. I'm staying on. As much as the Elon purchase sucks, I use the site way too much to simply abandon it.
Instead, I'll probably join in on the protests that try to devalue the site. I think that's the way to really make Elon regret the purchase. Fuck Elon Musk
Instead, I'll probably join in on the protests that try to devalue the site. I think that's the way to really make Elon regret the purchase. Fuck Elon Musk
I really don't see twitter surviving, just need a successor to flock to. Any business or media personality or journalist would flee since now every tweet will be filled with vitriol against them, another platform opens up and they join and just have their Twitter account repost their main account.
Pretty much, the people saying it could get worse are the same who doomscroll and post 20 Trump threads to the front page of era as if it's the actual end of the world. Just close twitter and go outside lol.
Never had an account to begin with. Do follow several people on the platform, but despite Twitter's incessant efforts to make account-less viewing more and more of a hassle I've more or less stuck with my guns on that account. If the people I follow jump ship, I'll just follow them.
I had a mastodon account before. It's been great seeing the bump in activity and seeing a few familiar faces.
Any luck this will keep going for a bit longer and I won't have anything to lose by deleting twitter.
Any luck this will keep going for a bit longer and I won't have anything to lose by deleting twitter.
Are you young/new enough that you don't realize that Era was literally started as an exodus from another place due to largescale disapproval of its owner, or is this a thats-the-joke situation?
Maybe. Ill do what I did with Facebook: I'll disengage with it for a while and if I'm not missing anything then it's gone.
To be fair I encountered Trump's tweets more on Resetera than I ever did on Twitter.
I will continue to use Twitter to advocate for, and spread values I believe in and there is nothing Elon can do about it outside outright banning me.
Well 90% of my twitter use is as a newsfeed for fast updates so that won't change either.
Well 90% of my twitter use is as a newsfeed for fast updates so that won't change either.
I only made a twitter account very, very recently when they started making people sign in to view tweets. I never had an account for years and now I only have an empty account that, has no followers, doesn't follow anyone, and used a random burner email address to sign up. I already block twitter's cookies and tracking with various browser extensions.
Sure if something else comes along I'll use it. But I'll probably just keep my empty account as is to view the occasional tweet if no replacement is ever made.
Sure if something else comes along I'll use it. But I'll probably just keep my empty account as is to view the occasional tweet if no replacement is ever made.
Never had an account. Right now there is no straight up replacement so I don't see some mass exodus.
I'm just gonna keep using it like I was already using it — without giving much of a shit, not being too overly invested in it. Twitter was already super evil before, it will continue to be super evil under a super evil overlord, so, like, whatever, y'know?
