Dear Twitter, thank you for suspending my account, otherwise I'd gladly pay $99
Now personally I am the calmest person you witness, but it takes less than 5 minutes of twitter scrolling to get me engaged with some idiot being wrong. Sometimes its a conversation that I follow and that conversation triggers me and I need to join wasting time and being angry. But not anymore! Just few months ago, in response to someone calling me bold (actually random avatar, far from bold/ing), I called them fat - apparently something that is on Twitter ban list, and my account got switched into "read only" mode. I could refresh and read newest content, but not follow or reply/tweet. Obviously I immediately went into wanting to appeal that decision... but then I realized - "let me try to use Twitter like this." And oh boy let me tell you how wonderful my experience is! Sometimes I still get to read idiots and nasty people's comments... but my own awareness that I cannot simply join them and waste my time and get myself angry, that blessing is simply worth $99 that I would otherwise gladly pay Twitter each and every month to have this blessing of a "read only" Twitter account.
End of the story.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 23.3 ms ] threadMy other account is a private locked down account where I don't follow anyone, instead I use lists. I don't want bots scraping someone's follower list and then randomly adding me due to some automated tool. I /never/ get follow requests as a result.
I also don't favorite tweets. Instead I bookmark them, so only I can see them. I don't want likes public. My private account is for lurking. You should try doing this for your 'read only' experience.
Can they control your life?
Get one!