I’ve been on Twitter since May 2007. Before hashtags were a thing. Before you could post photos or probably even emojis. When TwitFox was a thing it felt more like a chat room than a broadcast channel.
I met an amazing community of people on it then. From the #ThirdTuesday crew and more.
I told friends about Twitter - and helped them get started on it. I wrote guides for my company about how to use Twitter. I wrote about how Twitter was foundational for journalism. I believed that it could be an incredible new technology that would replace RSS and make it easy to get news and information.
It was a huge part of my early career. For a long time, it continued to be an amazing community. I believed that it was an incredibly powerful tool to learn, connect, and build a career on.
I believed in it.
But I can no longer support what the site has become.
I believe that to continue to use Twitter is to endorse hate of all kinds.
No platform is perfect, free from hate, or ideologically neutral. All the sites and platforms we visit, post on, and use sit somewhere on a spectrum of “Good” to “Bad,” and we must each choose where we’re comfortable being.
Based on the direction Twitter is going, under the direction of its leader, and the behaviour of an increasingly large base of users, I will no longer be using Twitter.
For now, I will leave my account up but inactive.
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