Yeah, twitter used to be the best way to keep abreast of breaking news, so I followed some news anchors and politicos. I have used it less and less the pst couple of years and I was honestly hoping Elon would lose interest in his vanity project, but it just never happened. During the election campaigns and after the election I barely checked it and finally decided to just pull the plug on that cesspool. I deactivated/deleted the account.
I originally got Twitter to keep track of a wildfire near me in real time. Then to follow news. And finally to post art and cat pics. There’s no point in being on it anymore.
Same! Left Nov 14, the day before the new Xitter terms came into affect. See here, bolded sections by me:
“You agree that this license includes the right for us to (i) analyze text and other information you provide and to otherwise provide, promote, and improve the Services, including, for example, for use with and training of our machine learning and artificial intelligence models, whether generative or another type; and (ii) to make Content submitted to or through the Services available to other companies, organizations or individuals, including, for example, for improving the Services and the syndication, broadcast, distribution, repost, promotion or publication of such Content on other media and services, subject to our terms and conditions for such Content use,”...
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u/Persnickety13 1d ago
Thanks for the play by play -- I left twitter a couple weeks ago and stick to bluesky. I can enjoy the schadenfreude though!