Countering the various "Why I Left / You Should Leave Twitter" arguments going around this a.m. is this perspective from @jeffjarvis. I think a fair description of his arguments this morning would be (1) there is utility in staying where one's relationships remain, (2) there is utility in staying on Twitter to convince others to leave, and (3) Musk's ownership is likely to be temporary, leaving hope that the older dynamic can be reestablished.
@IntlLawGnome @jeffjarvis
If you quit twitter and delete your account, you break the web.
If you've been on Twitter for any length of time, there are hundreds (thousands?) of posts that have URLs that will 404 if you delete.
If anyone ever thought you were smart/witty/funny enough to quote tweet, you break their timeline. If you were ever embedded on a blog, you break their website.
Make Musk host your shit FOREVER, even if you're not active over there.
@jimmylittle @IntlLawGnome @jeffjarvis
Causing those links to 404 breaks Musk's shit better than forcing him to host it. If embedded tweets go dark everywhere, nobody will embed tweets anymore.
Delete your content, not your account. Your data is the product. Take it back.
