Farewell Twitter

Next week would have been be my fifteenth Twitter anniversary, but that ain’t gonna happen, and it’s anyhow not a thing. For two reasons: Someone renamed Twitter, but more importantly, I deactivated my account 30 days ago, meaning the grace period is over and the account is gone. No big deal, I replaced it with Mastodon in 2022 and after an unnecessary course correction I stopped tweeting in 2024. But the account still existed. For two reasons: To avoid link rot, and to prevent others from grabbing the account. So why now? What changed? I stopped caring. But in general it’s not a good idea to have any kind of association with the platform. Even when you think it had reached rock bottom, it manages to take a turn for the worse. Good riddance. Better times Before turning off the lights, I picked a handful of tweets so I could create an image gallery. I obviously did this way too late, conversations with people that themselves had deleted their accounts have already been broken. And even…