"We cannot release inactive usernames at this time," Twitter's policy still says.
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Twitter starts purging inactive accounts after quiet policy change
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"Log in or lose your account" says the company that logged users out repeatedly last week.
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And that gives Musk what he wants. They responded to his threat, they find Twitter important enough that they feel the need to comply with his demands. Again the best way to deal with someone like that is to not do what they demand. And in this case that means no tweets, not a single one.
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I deleted both my professional and personal accounts. I'm so over Musk/Twitter drama. Let it burn to the ground already!
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Musk couldn't embody "bully" more if he tried. First he set up a scenario to poke NPR. When they weren't having it and left, he then started trying to taunt them back to the playground so he could bully them again.
His behavior just boggles my mind. He has more wealth than he could spend in several lifetimes. Even after throwing away all the money on Twitter! He could be doing anything with his time, and this is what he chooses to do. I would almost feel sorry for him, except for all the collateral damage he does in the meantime.
His behavior just boggles my mind. He has more wealth than he could spend in several lifetimes. Even after throwing away all the money on Twitter! He could be doing anything with his time, and this is what he chooses to do. I would almost feel sorry for him, except for all the collateral damage he does in the meantime.
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I mean I can't imagine any other outcome than being able to claim inactive handles if they are going to be purged. The entire point of such a purge is making usernames available for active users to use.
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IncorrigibleTroll
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DNS providers should start charging Musk $8/month to keep twitter.com in their lookup tables.
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I think it’s more complex. NPR also does n want their account going to some npr super troll. Interesting to see how they will react.
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Dear Petulant Little Fuck Wad:
No one wants to come over to your house.
Go bang your head on a wall.
No one wants to come over to your house.
Go bang your head on a wall.
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No worries, those journalists can just email press@twitter.com to get a helpful response.
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Though that also helps Twitter by boosting it's mDau stats.
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The answer I've heard is as simple as it is disgusting- make Twitter effectively 'unuseable'. As long as people can curate their timelines and hawk their wares, they'll stay.
All of those experts pointing out creeping fascism and pathocracy will stay with a fascist, because it is in their professional interest to stay.
And nothing you or I say will ever sway them, because they won't hear it or care enough to act upon their own assessments in a meaningful way.
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So you are saying NPR should cave to the blackmail of Musk and go back to tweeting so that Musk gets what he wants. Then NPR starts dropping the poop emoji, 2 hours later they get told by Twitter/Musk that their account will be reassigned if they are not serious about using Twitter again. A day later they get told that an organization at large as them can easily fork over the cash for an org badge and all their employee accounts, if not the account will be reassigned.
That is the problem with caving to blackmail, it gives control of your life (or in this case Twitter account) to the blackmailer.
The best thing is to not cave. Worst that Musk can do is pursue a personal vendetta and ignore that Twitter at this point still defines inactive as not logging in, not as not tweeting. It will cause short term pain for NPR if a troll gets the account but long term reassigning the account will backfire spectacularly on Musk.
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Most companies don’t work this hard to aggressively lower their user stats.
Bold strategy, let’s see how it plays out.
Bold strategy, let’s see how it plays out.
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Oh, but Musk isn't making his money from advertisers, but from idiots stupid enough to lay out $8/month for the privilege of seeing Musk's elevated ravings polluting their feeds while the reasonable and rational posters are leaving the platform in droves.
He's trying to make Twitter self sufficient off of subscriptions, which we all know will not work.
At this point, any advertisers left on Twitter are likely from companies I'd not want to do business with. Considering the increasing concentration of radicals and Nazis on the platform, what company in their right minds, except maybe Remington Arms, would want to be associated with those fuckers?
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IDK, a real bully can actually get others to do what they want. Musk is busy discovering that he paid $44 billion for something he thought he could use to bully people into paying attention and loving him, but instead he's watching people roll their eyes and walk away from him.
This is like the billionaire version of those ads promising weaklings who got sand kicked in their faces at the beach that they'll get strong and attract all the women if they pay for their program.
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I put up one last pinned tweet explaining why I left and linked my new mastodon account. We'll see how long it stays up lol.
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Oh for fuck's sake, please do!
I have been trying to delete my account for nearly 3 months now. But I keep getting notifications that someone is trying to hack into it. But it shouldn't fucking exist at all, so for the love of God, please do purge it.
You fucking nazis.
I have been trying to delete my account for nearly 3 months now. But I keep getting notifications that someone is trying to hack into it. But it shouldn't fucking exist at all, so for the love of God, please do purge it.
You fucking nazis.
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Next week’s new feature - shutting down accounts that don’t subscribe to Twitter Blue at least once every 60 days (except the exceptions that will be made on a sane by insane basis). That’ll get ‘em!
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IncorrigibleTroll
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If that happens, they’ll presumably react with a trademark c&d.
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steelcobra
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That's what happens when you cross the line from "money as a thing you use" into "money as a way of keeping score."
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I don’t even remember my handle, so he’s actually doing me a favor by “purging” me.
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The constant "let's change policy so Elon can do whatever random thing he wants" has a lot in common with the Florida Republican Party constantly moving their state's goalposts so DeInsaneTis can do whatever he wants. Quelle surprise.
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And despite never tweeting, I heard about it.
Because journalists treat twitter posts as press releases. It's faster and easier than waiting for a properly formatted press release on a company/country/personality's website.
If they stopped, the whole house of cards would collapse much faster.
I would like them to stop.
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If my late dad had tweeted, I'd be fine with Twitter deleting his account. He never wrote down his Facebook password, and FB wanted a copy of his death certificate to allow me to delete his account there. No, Zuck, you don't need a copy of something like that. His account is still up, almost five years later, and every now and then, people who weren't aware of his passing still post there.
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