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

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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.

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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

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

Politico: Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves. “The latest figures from X published this week — which it was required to release to comply with the European Union’s flagship tech rulebook, the Digital Services Act — show a sharp decline in the number of users in Europe. Since August last year, the platform has lost 11 million European users, with the biggest exoduses […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/01/politico-elon-musk-takes-hit-as-europeans-ditch-x-in-droves/