I deactivated my Twitter account two weeks ago--I don't miss it all.
I bailed from Twitter two weeks ago, and don't miss it. I like coming here and reading boring academic stuff rather than an endless feed of unsolicited garbage like street fights, tech bro posts, nazis, and pornography.
261956 citations--very solid.
10 minutes max if you want to record something. My courses are mainly text-based. I use other tools like a Miro whiteboard.
Same here. It shaped my career. I left last week and haven't had any urges to return.
I think Trump is going to win.
I cannot over-emphasize the colossal loser energy of taking a platform where once the biggest stars in the history of popular culture voluntarily posted original content every day because they enjoyed it into a pyramid scheme where the worst dipshits on earth pay to be fake friends with each other.
Twitter is extremely creepy these days because 90% of the responses are bots and it’s not exactly clear why. Usually it’s not even political, it’s not selling anything, it’s just bots pretending to be people. The vibe is like boarding a city bus and realizing none of the passengers have faces
That day. Nothing major.