If you’re going to leave Twitter, please don’t
a) delete your account, because someone bad will steal your handle
b) delete your Tweets, because their existence doesn’t help Elon and it’s like burning the Library of Alexandria.

Twitter captures a real-time historical record of a couple of decades and the billions of individuals’ snapshots are irreplaceable.

The thought of all those tweets being erased makes me feel physically sick.

[please pass on if you agree.]

@timbray I don’t agree, though I worked at the Library of Congress on web archiving for several years. I deleted my thousands of tweets a few years ago; they were mine to remove, and it was no longer a place I wanted my words to be seen. I deleted my account recently; someone bad *has* stolen my handle, and I’m apathetic.