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Tim Bray Dec 16, 2022

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.]

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David K

@timbray @jamie I didn’t ever tweet with any sense that I was doing something to be publicly archived. I see it as ephemeral.

I’ve downloaded an archive and completely purged my account. I just don’t feel like leaving my content, including photography, on that dumpster fire of a website. I’m completely fine with being gone and not leaving much of a trace!