NEW from us today:

Zoe Schiffer on how Twitter botched its war on bots over the weekend;

and, I wrote about why I'm beginning to leave the site behind

https://www.platformer.news/p/how-elon-botched-his-war-on-bots

How Elon botched his war on bots

PLUS: Why it's time to start leaving Twitter behind

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@caseynewton This is spot on. I’ve been arguing that depriving Twitter of engagement needs to be the objective.

The ‘stay [on Twitter] and fight’ crowd misses the point that their engagement is Twitter’s lifeblood. Deprive Twitter of your engagement and see Twitter wither.

This can be achieved many ways; we may have different plans that work for each of us, as Casey does here. Hopefully an alternative platform e.g. Mastodon can gain critical mass and take Twitter’s place.