Still use Twitter/X? Consider dropping it...

Many people that were once enthusiast Twitter users have dropped as a direct or indirect effect of its ownership change and the following policy changes. Given Twitter X is getting each time more irrelevant, it is less interesting and enciting for more and more people… But also, its current core users (mostly, hate-apologists of the right-wing mindset that finds conspiration theories everywhere) are becoming more commonplace, and by sheer probability (if not for algorithmic bias), every time it becomes more likely a given piece of content will be linked to what their authors would classify as crap.

So, there has been in effect an X exodus. This has been reported in media outlets as important as Reuters, or The Guardianresearch institutes such as Berkeley, even media that no matter how hard you push cannot be identified as the radical left Mr. Trump is so happy to blame for everything, such as Forbes…

Today I read a short note in a magazine I very much enjoy, Communications of the ACM, where SIGDOC (the ACM’s Special Interest Group on Design of Communication) is officially closing their X account. The reasoning is crystal clear. They have the mission to create and study User Experience (UX) implementations and report on it, «focused on making communication clearer and more human centered». That is no longer, for many reasons, a goal that can be furthered by the means of an X account.

(BTW, and… How many people are actually angry that Mr. Musk took the X11 old logo and made it his? I am sure it is now protected under too many layers of legalese, even though I am aware of it since at least 30 years ago…)