Chris Trottier

Observation: people from the current #TwitterMigration are mostly folks who had Twitter accounts pre-2010.

Or at least, those are the folks who talk to me.

Nov 6, 2022 at 5:12amWeb
Show threadcostrikeNov 6, 2022
@atomicpoet guilty
Show threadHugo Slabbert ⚠️Nov 6, 2022
@costrike @atomicpoet lol, just made the cut. Oct '09
Show threadDan BauerNov 6, 2022
@atomicpoet 2008 how do you do
Show threadNatanael ⚠️Nov 6, 2022
@grandhipoobah @atomicpoet same, although I didn't use it much for quite a few years
Show threadEllenor Bjornsdottir   Nov 6, 2022
@atomicpoet I didn’t have an account until 2014, but I was born in 2000.
Show threadAriadne Conill 🐰Nov 6, 2022
@atomicpoet technically, my first account was on identi.ca, which predated twitter 😵‍💫​
Show threadChris TrottierNov 6, 2022
@ariadne I remember identi.ca. It's too bad it didn't take off.
Show threadIzzyNov 6, 2022
@atomicpoet Oh yeah. I'm on my second twitter account. My original twitter account was banned because I called a certain children's book author turned TERF on their bullshit.
Show threadChris TrottierNov 6, 2022
@Izzy Blue check privilege is real.
Show threadChris TrottierNov 6, 2022
@Izzy Also, you're among friends. You can say her name 😉
Show threadIzzyNov 6, 2022
@atomicpoet It was JK Rowling and I called her a TERF cunt.
Show threadChris TrottierNov 6, 2022
@Izzy 👏 👏 👏
Show threadIzzyNov 6, 2022
@atomicpoet It really is.
Show threadStephan FabelNov 6, 2022
@atomicpoet I'm one of them, was trying to find something that felt like community again. Rare to see, I thought it was all gone the way of ads, "official" accounts, etc.
Show threadTomas Bruno Choy 🐐🇨🇦Nov 6, 2022
@atomicpoet I joined Twitter 2009. #twexit
Show threadPatrickCMillerNov 6, 2022
@atomicpoet 2009…
Show threadMarcoNov 6, 2022
First(ish) adopter hive rise up!
Show threadLuc van DonkersgoedNov 6, 2022
@atomicpoet 2009 reporting in!
Show threadRichard ScottNov 6, 2022
@atomicpoet I was never a massive Twitter user but I have been struck how similar Mastodon feels to early Twitter. Definitely more of a community feel, less self-promotion going etc. It feels like something I want to be part of.
Show threadAlexis MadrigalNov 6, 2022
@atomicpoet totally agree with this observation. First mass migration of those folks I’ve ever seen
Show threadlipstadtNov 6, 2022
@atomicpoet 2008 checking in
Show threadGalactic CantinaNov 6, 2022
@atomicpoet 2009
Show threadInsider UANov 6, 2022
@atomicpoet not all of them, in my case - yes, but. I see users who are 20-30 years old
Show threadBryan HanselNov 6, 2022
@atomicpoet 2008 here
Show threadKathyF (Kathryn Barrett)Nov 6, 2022
@atomicpoet 2007 here. Twitter seemed much easier and more intuitive, tbh. Or maybe its changes came about gradually. I'm still unable to find many of the accounts I search for, and can't follow from inside a different server.
Show threadChris TrottierNov 6, 2022
@KathyF Are you including their domain name in your search (ex: @[email protected])?
Show threadKathyF (Kathryn Barrett)Nov 6, 2022
@atomicpoet I think the problem with some of them was not having the initial @ sign. Others worked without it though.
Show threadChris TrottierNov 6, 2022
@KathyF Yeah, that's a tiny thing, but does require getting used to.