Yeah, every buying or support decision you make is (in the end) political. Elon Musk uses his money to support his political agenda. If you are on Twitter or buy a Tesla you support Elon Musk financially and therefore also his political agenda. So if you do not support his views, get out. I did. It is as simple as that!
Don't delete your account - it'll only get reused by someone else and cause confusion.
In January 2016 - for the same reasons as Phil: Twitter's blind eye towards Trump - I stopped using Twitter. But I didn't delete my account, I instead ran a script to delete all the tweets I had posted leaving it blank, and also unfollowed everyone. In the description I have a link to my website. So Twitter maintains my presence but doesn't get any benefit from my usage. I also did this with Facebook to a lesser extent just leaving connections to family members who wouldn't understand my disappearance. But again, I deleted all photos and posts.
Over the past 8 years I found it useful to post once or twice before deleting them after. Twitter isn't going away (sadly) so maintaining a stub presence is useful.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 27.4 ms ] threadIn January 2016 - for the same reasons as Phil: Twitter's blind eye towards Trump - I stopped using Twitter. But I didn't delete my account, I instead ran a script to delete all the tweets I had posted leaving it blank, and also unfollowed everyone. In the description I have a link to my website. So Twitter maintains my presence but doesn't get any benefit from my usage. I also did this with Facebook to a lesser extent just leaving connections to family members who wouldn't understand my disappearance. But again, I deleted all photos and posts.
Over the past 8 years I found it useful to post once or twice before deleting them after. Twitter isn't going away (sadly) so maintaining a stub presence is useful.
- register a new account with a different username
- change the username on your existing account to something else, thereby freeing up that username
- rename your new account's username to the username you want to keep
- delete your previous account
Result: completely empty account with the username you want, no script needed