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🌐️🐦️🇹 Former Twitter usage information for @seanpm2001 |
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I haven't really been active on Twitter since 2018 November 3rd, and I have no plans on returning. I started using Mastodon on 2023, February 3rd. I am not very active on Mastodon either at the moment of writing this (2023, Monday, May 15th)
When I first used Twitter, it was 2016. I was in my social media era, and didn't really create anything worthwhile, just morning, afternoon, evening, and night posts, along with something else from time to time. It isn't the most exciting account. I created over 10000 tweets in less than 2 years.
From 2023 June 1st to 2023 June 20th I went and backed up all of my Twitter accounts due to rumors of Twitter deleting dormant accounts.
On 2023, June 20th I officially abandoned my Twitter accounts. They are now subject for deletion. If anyone feels the need to crawl them via the wayback machine please do so now. All 6 accounts take up less than 100 megabytes in total.
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I briefly used Periscope in the past, but not for very long. I never posted to it. It was a very short fad in my household.
I had several (6) accounts on Twitter:
@seanwallawallaMain account@seanwallawallaaAnimation account@seanwallawallabBusiness account@seanwallawallaeElectronic library account@seanwallawallalLive stream account@seanwallawalla2"2nd" twitter account
This section goes over Twitter following habits
While on Twitter, I did follow for follows. At one point, I had over 1.7k followers from this, but couldn't follow any more accounts, as there was a 5000 follow limit on my account (other people didn't seem to have this limit)
When going back to write this, I have noted that about 1000+ of the accounts I followed have been deleted.
When I created my Twitter account, I was automatically followed to a lot of bad accounts, and I unfollowed the ones I could. Some remain.
I had already been a dead account on Twitter for nearly 2 full years when Elon Musk completed his hostile takeover of Twitter.
Context:
This paragraph is modified from an old note dating to 2022 November.
Elon Musk bought twitter on 2022, October 27th and it has been getting worse and worse. I never expected him to run it well. Less than 2 weeks later, I found Twitter open source projects on GitHub and made a link list, but it was expected to start being worked with in December. I have been stressed regarding the idiocy of Twitters current management, and have feared that the open source part of Twitter may get shut down, due to all of the worker firings. I waited a bit too long on this. On 2022, Saturday, November 12th, I switched gears from 
Atom forking to Twitter forking. I expect to finish within 7 days, then I won't have this stresser. Once I am done forking all Twitter repositories, I will go back to forking Atom repositories.
- 2022 November 16th: it is done
Side comment (2022 November 29th) I am surprised as to how Musk keeps shooting himself in the foot harder each time
I am replacing my Twitter social links with Mastodon links where I can. The main holdout is u/SeanWallaWalla where I plan to do so eventually.
I had a small amount of data (estimate: less than 100 megabytes) of data on Twitter, and I have been trying to figure out how to download the data correctly, so that I can delete my account. After the Musk takeover, this project became a lot more hopeless.
After I found that Twitter was deleting dormant accounts, I decided to start doing data takeouts. I did 1-2 accounts per week, for 4 weeks, finishing data takeout on 2023, Tuesday, June 20th. This incident led to the founding of my Takeout Tuesdays event.
Note that I am no longer going to access these accounts. I will let fate (Twitter management) decide what happens next. If dormant accounts really are being deleted, I assume all 6 will be deleted eventually. If anyone feels it is necessary to crawl these pages via the wayback machine, go ahead. I already have an offline archive of all of their contents.
If any of the accounts get hijacked, I will then regain control, and delete all of them.
Notes 2023.05.15
Twitter repo archives
Twitter account archives
Mastodon
What I did on Twitter
Various accounts
Automatically followed to a lot of bad accounts, unfollowed the ones I could
Removing links to Twitter accounts, still a holdout on github:seanwallawalla I plan to do so eventually
Elon Musk and plans to never return
File version: 3 (2023, Tuesday, June 20th at 04:23 pm PST)
