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 my approach was to download my twitter data (in the hopes that it might someday be updatable) and null out my account but keep it active. That way if sanity regains I can simply upload my archive and get back to it.
@me @timbray
I requested my data but they never sent me anything. How long did it take to get yours?
@trowzers @me @timbray be ready for big files - couple of gig .. I had to log on with my laptop and store the data on an external hard drive so I didn’t swallow loads of laptop space. Took about a week for my notification