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Will you delete your Twitter account?
« on: April 25, 2022, 04:19:07 PM »
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Will you delete your Twitter account?

If Elon Musk takes over Twitter will you delete your account? Or is it better to stay active so we know what Musk and his fellow oligarchs are up to?

I'm leaning towards deleting my account especially if he reinstates Trump.

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Star Member SoonerPride (11,490 posts)

1. if trump is allowed back on Twitter I delete my account

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Star Member Johnny2X2X (12,922 posts)

9. Ditto

Trump is the biggest threat to our Democracy in its history. He gets back on and I will leave.

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Star Member TheRealNorth (5,317 posts)

12. Yup

If they allow the Biggest Loser back, then we know what the agenda is, which is to destroy American Democracy.

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Star Member chia (1,902 posts)

2. Yes. I've enjoyed it, but not enough to accept TFG being allowed back, and what does Musk

mean by "authenticate all humans?"

If I can't be on Twitter anonymously, I'm not gonna be on it at all.

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Star Member MontanaMama (19,085 posts)

5. Undecided.

I don’t tweet but I use my account to follow a few progressives and to be able to look at Twitter threads posted here on DU.

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Star Member IrishAfricanAmerican (2,816 posts)

6. Done and

done.

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Star Member BigmanPigman (45,680 posts)

10. I would if I had it but I never had Fakebook

or Twatter. Neither does my family.

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Star Member BlueGreenLady (2,006 posts)

15. Waiting to see

what happens. I'm ok with waiting in limbo. I imagine some kind of new site will pop up if Twitter goes any further downhill.

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SoCalDavidS (6,660 posts)

21. I Love How People Are Saying "IF TFG Is Allowed Back On"

Are you kidding? He's going to be back on within weeks of Musk officially taking over. There is literally ZERO chance that he remains banned, along with countless others who are banned, the majority of those will be allowed back as well.

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Mike Nelson (8,807 posts)

23. Well...

... probably not. However, I might end up going there less... I see him as a potential ally of Trumpsters... they need Twitter and Facebook. They have a big media (FOX), but they need big social media. If they win Congress, they will go after Facebook, next. Also, it probably goes without saying here, but when the POTUS does what Trump does on social media, it's NOT ANTI-FREE SPEECH to ban him. They have standards, and he doesn't follow any rules but his own. What they don't like is that there is way too much free speech on social media, and they need control. Now, if many progressives leave Twitter, we lose... taking yourself out of the game strengthens those who stay. I always tell friends to leave Facebook, Twitter, etc if it's unhealthy for you, but not because someone posted pro-Trump politics.

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28. But now we're going to be supporting Musk financially

With ad clicks and retweets.
That's what I can't get past in my mind.

I now see Twitter as just another part of the Elon Musk empire.

Honestly Twitter hasn't been as fun to use since Eric Boehlert died. He was a big reason I logged on.

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31. Agree...

... even retweeting DU or Occupy Dem is feeding the site. I won't be retweeting anything, for the time being... Still, if everyone politically progressive leaves and Trumpsters get more active, the sheep will easily be led... maybe the site will die and stocks fall... we'll have to see what happens.

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Star Member rockfordfile (8,016 posts)

25. It's not just about trump. It's about a un-American pos Musk. Musk is a un-American fascist pos.

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Star Member CentralMass (12,623 posts)

29. I deactivated my account this am.

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Star Member ColinC (5,118 posts)

33. Already done

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Star Member obnoxiousdrunk (2,663 posts)

41. Wait and

see what happens and then Cancel.

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Star Member ecstatic (29,663 posts)

44. twitter is only worth something if the left sticks around

If everyone leaves it will become a rw cesspool that even the rw won't want to be a part of.

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49. You don't need an account to read Twitter. Just search for keywords or names.

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Re: Will you delete your Twitter account?
« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2022, 04:24:52 PM »
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44. twitter is only worth something if the left sticks around

If everyone leaves it will become a rw cesspool that even the rw won't want to be a part of.

Who's "everyone"? Twitter may have a lot of very vocal leftists, but they do not constitute "everyone", or anything close to it.
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Re: Will you delete your Twitter account?
« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2022, 04:58:24 PM »
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1. if trump is allowed back on Twitter I delete my account...



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Re: Will you delete your Twitter account?
« Reply #3 on: April 25, 2022, 05:34:06 PM »
Uncle Ralphie suggests DUmmies who are angry about Elon Musk follow the lead of the clown who self-immolated on Erf Day.  A self-correcting problem.
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« Reply #4 on: April 25, 2022, 06:28:49 PM »
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Will you delete your Twitter account?

If Elon Musk takes over Twitter will you delete your account? Or is it better to stay active so we know what Musk and his fellow oligarchs are up to?

I'm leaning towards deleting my account especially if he reinstates Trump.

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Re: Will you delete your Twitter account?
« Reply #5 on: April 25, 2022, 06:31:19 PM »
OH NOES!!!

No more bitter hateful tweets from low 80 IQ people. 

How will twitter survive?

I'll say right now that if the fascist feral government doesn't come in and queer the deal that Twitter will be double the market cap it is today under Musk management.
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Re: Will you delete your Twitter account?
« Reply #6 on: April 25, 2022, 06:47:53 PM »
If Elon makes Twitter like Facebook with an easy interface, etc., I'll be done with Facebook. It would be extremely financially-advantageous for him to do so. He's already talking about open-sourcing the code.
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Re: Will you delete your Twitter account?
« Reply #7 on: April 25, 2022, 07:02:23 PM »
They want the whole world to be a LW echo chamber.

I was reading something the other day from some LWer that said the weakness of the modern leftist is their unwillingness to engage or even consider the viewpoints of others who disagree. They only want to consume info and engage with those who are likeminded. So given what this LWer said, it’s not surprising that they’re going bonkers over potentially having to share space on one of their exclusive platforms.

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Re: Will you delete your Twitter account?
« Reply #8 on: April 27, 2022, 04:55:12 PM »
A famous song lyric comes to mind:

"You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave".
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Re: Will you delete your Twitter account?
« Reply #9 on: April 27, 2022, 05:28:05 PM »
If Twitter wasn’t actually silencing conservatives voices FAR more than liberal voices, the question is; WHY is one side celebrating so exuberantly while the other side is screeching?

Pretty easy litmus test there.

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Re: Will you delete your Twitter account?
« Reply #10 on: April 27, 2022, 05:46:35 PM »
Quote from: Texacon on April 27, 2022, 05:28:05 PM
If Twitter wasn’t actually silencing conservatives voices FAR more than liberal voices, the question is; WHY is one side celebrating so exuberantly while the other side is screeching?

Pretty easy litmus test there.

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Weeeeell, maybe not a DUmmy; but everybody else with a functioning cerabellum might...
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Re: Will you delete your Twitter account?
« Reply #11 on: April 27, 2022, 05:51:52 PM »
Aren't these the same clowns who were going to flee to Canada, Mexico and Europe if Trump won in 2016?
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Re: Will you delete your Twitter account?
« Reply #12 on: April 27, 2022, 08:04:53 PM »
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25. It's not just about trump. It's about a un-American pos Musk. Musk is a un-American fascist pos.


This, better than most, exemplifies the inversion present in the modern progressive or leftist mind.

Nevermind that free speech is the cornerstone to any free society, and is as American as anything under the sun, literally written into the instruction manual of how to run our nation, and codified into law.


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Re: Will you delete your Twitter account?
« Reply #13 on: April 27, 2022, 08:26:52 PM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on April 27, 2022, 05:46:35 PM
"So easy, even a DUmmy could do it".



Weeeeell, maybe not a DUmmy; but everybody else with a functioning cerabellum might...

Ha! Ha!  Good one!
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« Reply #14 on: April 27, 2022, 08:31:06 PM »
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« Reply #15 on: April 27, 2022, 08:48:14 PM »
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Will you delete your Twitter account?

If Elon Musk takes over Twitter will you delete your account? Or is it better to stay active so we know what Musk and his fellow oligarchs are up to?

I'm leaning towards deleting my account especially if he reinstates Trump.

Please do delete your Twitter account.
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Re: Will you delete your Twitter account?
« Reply #16 on: April 28, 2022, 08:22:25 AM »
Well since Easter is past and Thanksgiving and Christmas are months away, maybe DU-folk could virtue-signal having deleted their Twitter accounts until the Thanksgiving-Christmas I Cut off my Type of Family Member Virtue-Signaling Season arrives. The DUmp's annual I-Hate-America 4th of July ritual and August 6th America-Dropped-the-Bomb-Because-America-Is-Racist festival just don't fill in the Easter-Thanksgiving gap in bad years like 2022 is looking to be.
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« Reply #17 on: April 28, 2022, 10:05:18 AM »
Imagine being so pro-democracy that you're afraid of what will happen if people are allowed to speak.
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Re: Will you delete your Twitter account?
« Reply #18 on: April 28, 2022, 12:14:35 PM »
Quote from: ADsOutburst on April 28, 2022, 10:05:18 AM
Imagine being so pro-democracy that you're afraid of what will happen if people are allowed to speak.

"pro-democracy" the fools think they are, huh?

:ohmy: 

They are so-o-o in need of a dictionary!  Or perhaps someone who knows how to read to explain it to them.  :-)

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« Reply #19 on: April 28, 2022, 12:18:08 PM »
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They are so-o-o in need of a dictionary!  Or perhaps someone who knows how to read to explain it to them.  :-)

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« Reply #20 on: April 28, 2022, 12:20:00 PM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on April 25, 2022, 05:34:06 PM
Uncle Ralphie suggests DUmmies who are angry about Elon Musk follow the lead of the clown who self-immolated on Erf Day.  A self-correcting problem.

Ooh!  Somewhat  harsh  Uncle Ralphie ...

But, I do like the way you think!  I do, I do! :rotf:
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