SINCE LEAVING TWITTER.

Peter Wynn
2 min readDec 23, 2024

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It’s been two weeks now since I deactivated my twitter account and the reasons for it were thus. In the time before Musk owned it, one could report an Islamophobic homophobic or transphobic comment or threat of violence, and it would be removed. Nowadays, you receive the reply, “Sorry, that person has not violated the rules of twitter,” for things that would have had them banned previously. One such example was of a person who attacked a Muslim social commentator who decided to hold their own poll about Islamic immigration and the despicable individual who attacked them said that they were trying to find their own answer. The thing that the despicable individual was unaware of is, some of them are bot accounts who can skew the result, so the Muslim social commentator wanted a scientific result.

I am not in favour of bot accounts, after all, 11 years ago, spambot accounts were attacking then Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard and having photos of her in the crosshairs of the site of a machine gun, or a crude picture of her with a noose around her neck that Facebook would not remove, or they would clone your accounts. But I believe that if a person is not hurting another, and they use a pseudonym on social media, that’s fine, but Musk has been all too ready to comply with requests to unmask people such as “The PR Guy,” who the despicable Credlin claims has given her a decent (and well-deserved) amount of criticism!

Furthermore, Musk has changed the terms of use to allow people who you may have blocked to see some of your tweets even if they cannot respond to them.

So, how do I feel having left twitter? Okay, I miss some of my friends who are not on Facebook, but I don’t miss the anger I would feel at seeing the homophobic comments and transphobic comments that Musk allowed through. I don’t miss the incessant advertising that Musk allows now and how he has turned a formerly great platform into an infuriating mess. Musk may have been awarded a role that he was not qualified for by trump, but he can also reap what he has sown in the negative way with people who once valued the platform he bought leaving it in droves.

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Peter Wynn
Peter Wynn

Written by Peter Wynn

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