EFF: EFF is Leaving X. “We posted to Twitter (now known as X) five to ten times a day in 2018. Those tweets garnered somewhere between 50 and 100 million impressions per month. By 2024, our 2,500 X posts generated around 2 million impressions each month. Last year, our 1,500 posts earned roughly 13 million impressions for the entire year. To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% […]

Chapelboro: Town Of Chapel Hill Announces Departure From Social Media Site X. “The Town of Chapel Hill announced it will no longer post or monitor its accounts on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. The local government shared the decision in its weekly ‘Our Town’ newsletter on Thursday.”

Brian Teeter: Introducing X Twitter Deleter — An Open-Source Tool to Take Back Control of Your Tweet History. “Maybe you’re cleaning up your online footprint. Maybe you just want to reclaim control over your own data. Whatever the reason, deleting your entire tweet history is surprisingly difficult. That’s why I built X Twitter Deleter.”

Civil Society: Major charities leave X after AI images controversy. “Major charities including the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) have stopped posting on social media platform X due to controversy surrounding its artificial intelligence tool’s image-creating function.”

Why I left Twitter after 15 years, the rise and fall of the platform under Elon Musk, and why Mastodon is now my social media home.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/social-media-2/2024/11/leaving-twitter

#LeavingTwitter #SocialMedia #Mastodon #ElonMusk #BlueskyVsMastodon

Why I left Twitter after 15 years, the rise and fall of the platform under Elon Musk, and why Mastodon is now my social media home

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/social-media-2/2024/11/leaving-twitter

#LeavingTwitter #SocialMedia #Mastodon #ElonMusk #BlueskyVsMastodon

Just removed my old Twitter account. As I did not used it for more than a year and I do not want to come back I let it go.

#Twitter #LeavingTwitter #Mastodon

Why I left Twitter after 15 years, the rise and fall of the platform under Elon Musk, and why Mastodon is now my social media home

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/social-media-2/2024/11/leaving-twitter

#LeavingTwitter #SocialMedia #Mastodon #ElonMusk #BlueskyVsMastodon

arXiv: Straddling Two Platforms: From Twitter to Mastodon, an Analysis of the Evolution of an Unfinished Social Media Migration. “The acquisition of Twitter (now X) by Elon Musk in 2022 generated concerns among Twitter users regarding changes in the platform’s direction, prompting a migration campaign by some user groups to the federated network Mastodon. This study reviews the onboarding of […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/27/straddling-two-platforms-from-twitter-to-mastodon-an-analysis-of-the-evolution-of-an-unfinished-social-media-migration-arxiv/

Why I left Twitter after 15 years, the rise and fall of the platform under Elon Musk, and why Mastodon is now my social media home

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/social-media-2/2024/11/leaving-twitter

#LeavingTwitter #SocialMedia #Mastodon #ElonMusk #BlueskyVsMastodon