A year? And even if you never, ever intend to use Twitter again, there are still some reasons why deleting would not be a logical step. Take the account down, and all your content goes with it. This is obviously important for historical reasons. Twitter is a fantastically reliable resource for recent historical research, because Tweets cannot be edited.
If you see a tweet dated 8th March , then that is exactly what the user posted, at that exact time. So if you said something before anyone else on Twitter said it, Twitter will always reference you as the originator. Someone else becomes the originator. And why expend the effort rebuilding something you never needed to destroy in the first place? Not deleting is therefore the logical default. Yep, you lose them. All of them. It makes no difference. And in a less selfish vein, your followers lose you too.
Remember that hilarious dude who used to constantly change his name? Can you find him? Probably several times. Account names are much, much more difficult to track. The easy solution is simply not to delete your account. That way, unless they have themselves done a bunk, all the people you followed are still there when you return. If someone has Retweeted you, your account is now part of their Twitter experience too.
Plus, Twitter had warned about delays in data restoration. I reactivated my account about ten days later, and again found all my lists were empty. No big deal, because delays! But things were different this time — my timeline was completely dead. I actually had 0 followers and was following 0 people. As I looked around, I found more missing stuff. All the images I had uploaded were gone the tweets associated with those images were still there.
I use Twitter as a complementary bookmark service, so losing all my favorites was a bummer. Again, I did not pay too much attention to all this, because Twitter says it can take up to 24 hours for your data to be restored. I found a contact form quite easily, and sent an email to The Twitter Support Institution. They earnestly congratulated me, because they all know how exhausting and distressing Twitter can be.
When I first quit on the 15th, I came back three days later because I decided that I wanted to tweet about a new project. You have to wait at least a day. And so I returned to Slack to declare, once again, that I had quit Twitter. Hours after I deactivated my account and put a bounty on it, Chrissy Teigen announced she, too, would be leaving Twitter. When I saw her goodbye letter it felt like it was in my own handwriting. Twitter works differently when you have millions of followers and an endless eruption of mentions and replies.
Even rarer: her tweets often generated coverage from reporters and created entire news cycles. And like other women on the internet, she received years of public abuse simply for being herself — except at a scale few people will ever experience.
But everyone is exposed to the online abuse of others at scale, even if they are not targeted by it. And that means Twitter is a horror show for people who feel real anxiety just from witnessing anger and cruelty. Small boulder the size of a big boulder! Well, that, and theoretically owing Casey a thousand bucks. How it makes you form words and sentences to fit certain kinds of boxes. How it makes you feel compelled to fill those boxes, and why.
How these things alter the rhythm of your life. In that same blog post, Twitter said that doubling the length of tweets made people spend more time on Twitter.
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