Steve TeixeiraI sincerely cannot understand why otherwise normal and thoughtful people/organizations continue to patronize X/Twitter. I literally quit my job as an exec at Twitter when it became clear Musk would take over the company, and the level of ineptitude and noxiousness today has dramatically exceeded what I thought would have been possible at the time.
Garrett Wollman@stevetex People are far more likely to leave because the platform has turned to shit (which it has) than they are on account of which specific creepy sociopathic billionaire owns it.
@stevetex Last week I spoke to one of the communications team in our group about how toxic Twitter has become, and they are still on there because giving up that sweet, sweet engagement is hard. They'd never come here but are at least thinking about bsky. And a lot of the faculty and grad students don't have accounts on any other short-message platform, which makes it harder to plug their research. (Ideally they want to generate interaction, not just views.)
@stevetex It is also, in all honesty, asking a lot for a small social team to keep up with what is now eight different platforms (web, FB, IG/Threads, X, YT, TT, fedi/bsky/anything else), at least a couple of which are seriously PR unfriendly. (At least bsky has a usable global search.)