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If you’re going to leave Twitter, please don’t
a) delete your account, because someone bad will steal your handle
b) delete your Tweets, because their existence doesn’t help Elon and it’s like burning the Library of Alexandria.

Twitter captures a real-time historical record of a couple of decades and the billions of individuals’ snapshots are irreplaceable.

The thought of all those tweets being erased makes me feel physically sick.

[please pass on if you agree.]
I just today saw a link to how to save archived tweets to the Internet Archive which people may want to consider?

PS. For me, I opted to delete EVERYTHING, including my followers, likes, you name it. I'm a crazy person as I had to do some of it manually. 😀 Yes, I know some is on backup servers somewhere. My hope is by deleting all content then deactivating, in the tech snafus that I expect to come, it all gets mangled. 😀

https://help.archive.org/help/how-to-archive-your-tweets-with-the-wayback-machine/

#InternetArchive #TwitterMigration
This entry was edited (1 year ago)
this is my first bookmark I've ever saved on Mastodon! Thanks for the awesome share, and thanks @internetarchive for the great tool.