For me, deleting nearly a quarter-million tweets was like taking a giant boulder off my shoulders.

"It’s a sad thing to see the platform die in a blaze of angry tedium. But it is what it is. As more people leave, its value declines; as its value declines, more people leave. There’s already a critical mass of interesting people on Mastodon now; something that was never true before. And you don’t owe Twitter anything. You can just leave."

https://www.pwnallthethings.com/p/twitter-was-special-but-its-time

Twitter was special. But it's time to leave

Tweets were always short-lived. Turns out Twitter was too.

PwnAllTheThings
@edbott glad you’re here Ed!
@edbott Wow, I thought deleting 85,000 was a lot! Still have a few thousand “greatest hits” remaining before I nuke the rest and go out in some kind of final fit of “GFY.”
@edbott it's nice to have you over here :)

@edbott I keep saying that IMO many people overthink the matter.

My view: Twitter sucks now, so (unless one has some particular reason to stay), leave it.

Because it sucks.

No other reason can compete with that one. It's undignified to use a thing that sucks.

@edbott did you delete manually or use a tool?