Biscuits of DeathAug 13, 2023
Thesiswhisperer
This is the last day of my Twitter account. I have over 52K followers there, but I can't remain on a platform that pays people like Andrew Tate to post. I do this knowing it significant limits my reach in the academic community, but the standard you walk past is the one you accept.
Aug 12, 2023 at 9:30pmWeb
Show threadMadhav MehraAug 12, 2023
@thesiswhisperer well done.
Show threadBuy nothing newAug 12, 2023
@thesiswhisperer Hi Inger a big move. Pleased you're here. I miss my quality twitter community.
Show threadThesiswhispererAug 12, 2023
@princelysum me too - my community has scattered and a lot just disappeared. It's sad
Show threadBuy nothing newAug 12, 2023
@thesiswhisperer Hard to credit that anyone would purchase such a valuable product then destroy it. Do you reckon the Twitter name is available now [facetious]
Show threadThesiswhispererAug 12, 2023
@princelysum now that he's divorced the name perhaps the brand integrity will return. Irony!
Show thread🟥 Eveline Sulman 🇳🇱🇪🇺🇺🇦Aug 14, 2023
@thesiswhisperer @princelysum it is! But I wil follow you here.
Show threadBrunoAug 12, 2023
@thesiswhisperer 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👊🏾
Show threadLalit PatnaikAug 12, 2023
@thesiswhisperer The oligarch is trying his best to destroy the X-site, so we'd all have had to move out anyway.
Show threadThesiswhispererAug 12, 2023
@lalitpatnaik indeed... he doesn't want us there - he could not have been plainer
Show threadspinnerter 🇺🇦Fetter Tanzbär🇺🇦Aug 13, 2023
@lalitpatnaik @thesiswhisperer Elmo has destroyed WuffWuff (formerly known as Twitter). It has no value now. In ten years is WuffWuff (formerly known as Twitter) forgotten history.
Show threadEl DuvelleAug 12, 2023
@thesiswhisperer 🙇👌
Show threadRod GrahamAug 12, 2023
@thesiswhisperer if more people would do this then the costs of leaving won't be so high.
Show threadThesiswhispererAug 12, 2023
@roderickgraham agree - it's very frustrating. There's a couple of good people who seem really welded on there. I guess I just won't be seeing them anymore 🥹
Show threadDoreen32128 ready to rumble!Aug 12, 2023
@thesiswhisperer I left the former bird site about 1 week ago. Was there since 2009. Sad to leave. Very sad, but the X was just too much!
Show threadThesiswhispererAug 12, 2023
@Doreen32128 hard agree!
Show threadJules BeaumontAug 12, 2023
@thesiswhisperer I’ve done the same. It’s strange but hopefully we can rebuild the community :-) I’ve followed
Show threadThesiswhispererAug 12, 2023
@Julesbc I'm hopeful!
Show threadMilo KeiAug 12, 2023
@thesiswhisperer damn, that must be hard. The scattering of the masses is what I'm also really pained by. Twitter was the town square until fucko wanted 'tO mAKe It ThE toWn SqUArE' and ensured everyone pissed of to multiple platforms definitely not the new town square. Power to your arm. Thanks for the sacrifice, and the great advice! Glad you're here at least
Show threadThesiswhispererAug 12, 2023
@milo thanks Milo - I'm sad about it, but the sense of relief is stronger
Show threadrniloAug 13, 2023
@milo @thesiswhisperer Had to double-take our usernames, haha!
Show threadMilo KeiAug 13, 2023
@rnilo @thesiswhisperer back in the day when Milo Yiannopoulos finally got his toxic sludge off twitter I wanted to quarantine the handle. Alas. If we're all Milo none of us can be that one. Something something...
Show threadkaffandoAug 12, 2023
@thesiswhisperer
I'm not sure if I followed you over there, but I'm very happy to welcome and follow you here. It's a lovely place 😀
Show threadThesiswhispererAug 13, 2023
@kaffando thankyou 🙌
Show threadPhil BettsAug 12, 2023
@thesiswhisperer I think the academic community is one of the strongest migrations to Mastodon, so it should work itself out. 👍
Show threadThesiswhispererAug 13, 2023
@philbetts agree - definitely the best place for academic conversation 🙌
Show threadBen de BivortAug 12, 2023
@thesiswhisperer Sorry about your followers. But thanks for making the tough call!
Show threadlaurie bAug 13, 2023
@thesiswhisperer Followed here!
Show threadLevkaAug 13, 2023
@thesiswhisperer
https://kolektiva.social/@LevZadov/110879395669943712
Levka (@[email protected])

I repost stuff from here to my Twitter account. Over here I feel like I'm preaching to the choir. Over there I'm a least reaching some of the people who refuse to be chased out of the public square by Nazis, MAGAts, racists, and misogynists and expose them to the wonderful resource that is Mastodon. But there's a problem. See: (thread) https://twitter.com/bigpict26315486/status/1690499179385085953

kolektiva.social
Show threadChrisAug 13, 2023
@thesiswhisperer Glad to find you here. I really appreciated your book (“Your Academic Writing Trouble”) and have gotten tons of mileage out of doing thesis road maps for papers! Great communication tool with my professors as well.
Show threadThesiswhispererAug 13, 2023
@multiplicityCT my author's heart is so pleased to hear that, thanks 🥰
Show threadKate BowlesAug 13, 2023
@thesiswhisperer @phocks Welcome friend. Reach is only one thing. Your impact is profound wherever you go.
Show threadThesiswhispererAug 13, 2023
@kate @phocks thank you colleague 🙌
Show threadTrump & Epstein: Biz partners.Aug 13, 2023

@thesiswhisperer
I left #TheBirdSite back on Jan 1, but the #Mastodon server I chose started experiencing problems and I felt it necessary to move to this new server this morning.

Fortunately, Masto lets me move my Followers with me, but before that I went from 5K on FB to 1,800 on TheBirdSite to just 270 on "Newsie".

Rebuilding is painful. 😞

Show threadThesiswhispererAug 13, 2023
@MugsysRapSheet indeed - the promise of being able to move servers is a pretty good one
Show threadMike FraserAug 13, 2023
@thesiswhisperer You might be comforted to know that or research shows that 40-60%of those followers are most likely bots or abondoned accounts. If you make it known where you can now be found, the gravity of your influence will most likely pull a good deal of those followers here. You'll also find your engagement will be somewhat comparable.
Show threadThesiswhispererAug 13, 2023
@mike that's reassuring and certainly lines up with my observation - so much more chatting here compared to Twitter. Do you think advertisers on Twitter know about your research?
Show threadMike FraserAug 13, 2023
@thesiswhisperer Honestly @fingolas has done more work in this area, but here's our work: https://thecanadian.online/?p=167
Journalists, You’re Walking Away From A Gold Mine - The Canadian Online

UPDATED FEB 9, 2023: Added some great corroborating numbers from Martin Holland @[email protected] Let's time travel back to December, a time when Elon decided he didn't care for journalists anymore and laid down the ban hammer on a wide swath of the press corp. There were headlines (ironically) about the death of free speech on

The Canadian Online - Companion Blog to The Canadian.Social Mastodon instance
Show threadThesiswhispererAug 14, 2023
@mike @fingolas thanks for all that work - both yours and the research: fascinating. I did go through pages and pages of followers and finding the same thing. A lot of them seemed to leave in 2017 (maybe US politics?) and then still more in 2021 (pandemic?). I think it was even higher than 50% if I count how many seem to have dropped off this year. Still getting a lot of click throughs from there to blog posts, but as someone else said - fighting fascism doesn't come without a cost and I'm prepared to pay it.
Show threadrjbandicootAug 14, 2023
@thesiswhisperer @mike @fingolas Now that they've largely quit that "toxic" other place, how
do we encourage #ourABC to embrace the fediverse? it's like the local radio of social media - and arguably as important over the long term.
Show threadNathalie TaslerAug 14, 2023

@mike @thesiswhisperer @fingolas thank you for sharing all this! It confirms my experience, wasn't sure if observational bias

With much smaller numbers I noticed posting a new blog post on Twitter I had dozens likes and retweets but they didn't translate to reads. Here each interaction seems to translate into engagement.

Show threadJerzy DAug 13, 2023
@thesiswhisperer right on!
Show threadRebecca WallaceAug 13, 2023
@thesiswhisperer Well said and well done.
Show threadXiuwenAug 13, 2023
@thesiswhisperer Let's forget ex and move on 😂
Show threadProf Prachi SrivastavaAug 13, 2023

@thesiswhisperer

It's been great to engage with you there over the years, and wonderful to find you here. :)

Show threadThesiswhispererAug 13, 2023
@prachisrivas thankyou 🥰
Show threadAnnalieseAug 13, 2023

@thesiswhisperer it's why I left too. Anti-intellectual cesspool.

Following you.

Show threadDidzis 🚂Aug 13, 2023
@thesiswhisperer @richlv Respect! And thank you 🙌🏻
Show thread🇨🇦Aug 13, 2023
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Show threadChris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Aug 13, 2023
@thesiswhisperer congrats and hopefully the reach improves in time!
Show threadOili YlivaaraAug 13, 2023
@thesiswhisperer we also have/had active #ALDep research community in former Twitter. Also relevant journals (also bots) and main conference were actively posting there. I am not sure where people are heading after Twitter.
Show threadToni AittoniemiAug 13, 2023
@thesiswhisperer ”Invetability” is one expression of top-down authoritarianism, among other things.
Show threadNurrenberg JabewoschiAug 13, 2023
@thesiswhisperer yet you act like a child by announcing it , sad seeing you lose to people like tate.
Show threadThesiswhispererAug 13, 2023
@NeuraX_42 yeah - it was clear people@like me were not wanted over there
Show threadTake It EV Podcast 🎙️Aug 13, 2023
@thesiswhisperer @lisamelton I got over 3k followers there and somehow I’m afraid to let it go fully.
But then I know many people on it personally who refuse to leave it, despite knowing all the horrible things .
Climate people are in their own bubble there
Show threadThesiswhispererAug 13, 2023
@takeitev @lisamelton I guess climate activists feel there are doing the hard work over there, but I do wonder if it's wasted energy. Seems it's just full of people spoiling for a fight
Show threadNo Gods , no Masters! RESISTAug 13, 2023
@thesiswhisperer
Thats good...
X is a fascist platform....
Show threadlife mask (jeff)Aug 13, 2023
@thesiswhisperer 👏
Show thread🇬🇧Daron BrewoodAug 13, 2023
@thesiswhisperer @djnavarro Got to agree I’ve not so many followers on Twitter but now only use it for support from company’s who are not on mastodon.