> But I was on Twitter since 2007, and built a meaningful part of my career on it, and I won’t be posting at all, for the foreseeable future
Commit and delete your account then. Folks love to complain but rarely follow through.
Commit and delete your account then. Folks love to complain but rarely follow through.
The account is now locked. But deleting your account leaves it open for trolls to take over the username and pretend to be you.
Another unfortunate new policy is that inactive accounts will also be severed eventually and up for grabs.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/twitter-says-its-purging-inact...
Traffic down 14%-19% (depending on source) in the last year indicates people are following through.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/twitter-traffic-on-downward-trend...
I deleted my circa 2009 account earlier this year. It was fun while it lasted, just like MySpace.
Would also need to see an analysis of other social media sites to see how their engagement has fared in the same timeframe to tell if it's a broader trend or Twitter specifically.
If you have access to SimilarWeb (where the data came from) you can see it's a new trend. I can't share that but they do a free trial if you want to check it out.