2. I'll deactivate my account tomorrow so I can make my goodbyes. That will lead automatically to my account's deletion after 30 days.

3. This is nowhere near the personal sacrifice it would have been six months ago. I find the site to be of diminishing utility in promoting my writings for the New Republic, Backbencher, and other publications.

4. Mostly I'm quitting because I've wearied of the narcissistic toad who owns this site. I just can't justify associating myself with him anymore. Indeed, I've struggled with this since he smeared Paul Pelosi.

5. I've always had my doubts about this site, which is why I was relatively late to join it. It became a sort of addiction, but I recognized at the same time that it trivialized political discourse and created pitchfork mobs that frequently ...

6. ... led to the firings of people I respect, like Al Franken and James Bennet. The Twitter mob also found some deserving targets but I was never comfortable with the process, and even when there were real crimes the punishment was absurdly disproportionate.

7. This was never a healthy medium and of course Donald Trump brought it down to a previously unimaginable level of squalor. Still, I might have hung in there if the site hadn't been purchased by someone who made being on Twitter feel unclean.