Tim BrayDec 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.]

Show threadBartek TatkowskiDec 16, 2022
@timbray Not gonna lie, my ~4 years of shitposting are hardly something I want to leave for the world to see 😅
Show threadPatrik SvenssonDec 16, 2022
@bartek @timbray Going to be a gold mine for archeologists 1000 years from now. "He seems very invested in pictographs of cartoons saying strange things and someone called Elno who he doesn't seem to like"
Show threadBartek TatkowskiDec 16, 2022

@patriksvensson @timbray 🤣

"He has very strong opinions about dots and something called HTML being generated on the server?"

Show threadPatrik Svensson
@bartek @timbray "Whatever HTML is. We suspect it was a primitive form of encoded information on the first distributed computer network 'Internet'"
Dec 16, 2022 at 10:06amWeb
Show threadBartek TatkowskiDec 16, 2022
@patriksvensson @timbray "Not the same Internet that brought about the Second Dark Age?!"
Show threadPatrik SvenssonDec 16, 2022
@bartek @timbray "Yes, that one. It was crazy, even children used it"