I had a Twitter list "standard stuff" where I listed the core accounts I definitely wanted to hear about. This fav list grew over the years and had 120 users in total. These were active users that in the golden era posted every day. These were the ones I wanted to read whenever possible.

I wanted to see what's the status today so I went through every account and here's the result. By "inactive" I mean users who haven't posted anything in two months or more.

- 20% have completely deleted their account (the list now has 95 users)
- 36% still post frequently
- 64% are inactive or quit using Twitter
- 30% are inactive without any reason given
- 23% of those who still post on X also have active Mastodon, Bluesky or Threads accounts
- 1% quit and moved to Bluesky
- 1% quit and moved to Mastodon
- 1% is active on Threads

Deleted 19.000 Tweets.

Danke @luca für das Script.

I remember last year when the #RIPTwitter hashtag was trending on Twitter and about 1% of my mutuals actually believed in Twitter's downfall. I'm sure that percentage has gone up like to 90% by now.

Ironic how shortening a product's name to one character has ultimately resulted in MORE characters being used to describe it, since everyone has to use "the app formerly known as Twitter" for anyone to know what they're actually referring to.

Elon Musk Finally Realizes That Verification Requires More Than A Credit Card, Planning To Make Users Upload Gov’t ID | Techdirt

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/22/elon-musk-finally-realizes-that-verification-requires-more-than-a-credit-card-planning-to-make-users-upload-govt-id/

So Elon blocked this catturd guy for complaining about removing the blocking functionality?!
#RIPtwitter

The thing about Twitter that will be lost to time, the most devastating missing piece that is no longer faithfully recorded, is The Conversation. Only those of us who experienced it will remember.

Culture changed a lot thru those years. Those shifts were decided, among other places, on Twitter. Twitter’s rapid-fire network arguably drove The Conversation.

We belonged to a hive mind, each of us a separate neuron connected to the neurons in our local synaptic network, sparking off ideas. We’d debate those ideas w others, refining those ideas and rejecting the bad ones. We reasoned. We were a reasoning mind. We came to a lot of decisions about what things were harmful, what terminologies to settle on, what strategies were useful in activism, all manner of such things. Sure, some of those arguments are still being had (here and elsewhere), but much of that stuff is long settled, and we settled it there. Recorded in incomprehensible detail, worth studying for centuries.

Artist: #SALE / #StuartSale in City: #Coogee #NewSouthWales Australia - Title: "RIP Twitter" - #Streetart #Art #Mastoart #Mural #Pasteup #Cherub #StencilArt #RipTwitter

So, it's been a while since I did an #Introduction #ConnectionList #TwitterMigration post where, I find interesting people for you to follow on #Mastodon, and use my reach to more closely connect the #Fediverse

@ANUResearch is the official Mastodon account of #ANU Research (I think, it all looks very legit, but I don't know the person behind the account) #research #university

@drwaus is the new official account for Digital Rights Watch in Australia (h/t to all the good work Sam @floreani is doing in this space - don't forget to catch her #keynote at @pyconau@fosstodon.org later this month!)

@AoIR is the official Association of #Internet #Researchers account. Read more at https://aoir.org/about

Professor @nilsph1 works in #knowledge organisation and information retrieval #IR at the Department of Archive, Library and Information Studies at #Oslo Metropolitan University @oslomet :flag-no:

@fionatribe is an #anthropologist, workplace #strategist and #ethnographer who works in #architecture and #OrgDesign

@dcm is Dimitri Coelho Mollo, an Assistant #Professor in the Philosophy of #AI at #Umeå University :flag-se:

@anders is a #Communication strategist for #AI #Sweden :flag-se:

@rachaelvdm is a #MetaData #librarian #GLAM interested in #nature #art #history

@bentarnoff is a technical #writer, who recently wrote a brilliant piece on Joseph #Weizenbaum for The Guardian. You should read it.

@observablehq is the official account of the #dataviz platform, based on #D3js from @mbostock

That's all for today, don't forget to share your own #ConnectionList, particularly as we say #RIPTwitter

The final step of the #TwitterMigration is leaving the platform altogether.

How does one manage their #brand risk?

I have my #Twitter handle on slides, cards, and a host of other items that I've distributed during my academic career.

Once I leave Twitter (or get kicked out) and someone co-opts my username, how do I ensure that visitors know that the current owner of the username is no longer me? How does one manage #impersonation? Ideas?