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When leaving a social network, endeavor to be in the boat on the left.

Reflections on leaving Twitter

I joined Twitter pretty early, somewhere in the middle of 2008. Pretty far ahead of most of the people I would come to interact with on the site, and well towards the front of the educator pack. I was there as the site developed, as more and more educators came to use it as their main avenue of non-local professional discourse and networking. I haven’t always loved how that has looked, but if you had asked me even two weeks ago what the best professional development tool I use is, I would have told you it was Twitter without a second thought.

It was awesome. And now it’s dead.

I don’t think it’s dead in the sense that the site is going to stop existing any time soon. It’s dead in the sense that I can no longer use Twitter in good conscience for my professional networking needs. I don’t think I can use it in good conscience for much of anything anymore. This is entirely down to the change in ownership, and accompanying change in ethos, of the platform. When it became clear that Elon Musk was really going to take control of Twitter, I…