I started an update post to my previous post about Twitter almost immediately after I posted my goodbye. After reading David Lee’s article I could not wait to hear more and chose to post again why I no longer want to use Twitter and recommend teachers steer away from the platform. The fact that in less than a month, X (formerly known as Twitter) has moved from post monetization, to walled garden, to false information pedaling is just abhorrent. As an educator and content creator, I cannot sit back and advise others to use the platform anymore.
It has become a wild bigoted walled garden that is now unsafe for your students or their families. I hope that organizations like NCSS, ISTE, NEA, AFT, and other educator advocacy groups will also choose to leave the platform soon and migrate to IG, Facebook, Threads, and Mastodon to share digital content or make their RSS feeds easier to use in news readers.
Updated Sep 19. I’m officially done with Twitter because I do not understand why I should have to pay to share the content I generate and simultaneously release all ownership rights to the ones I am paying. Musk is a fraud and I hope he is successfully sued by his financeers for malfeasance. Axios Article about Twitter proposed changes
Update Oct 8. News of the violent content being openly floated around Twitter is disturbing and vile. David Lee has written a great OpEd about the incident for Bloomberg. This is another reason why I don’t want to go to the platform or use it in my classroom.
Update Oct 10. False news from the war between Hamas and Israel is now flooding into Twitter at an unchecked rate. With a completely absent accountability office, what kinds of misinformation posts we have seen about the Russian Invasion of Ukraine pale in comparison to the false info about this weekends attacks and proliferating response. See the following posts for info. Wired Washington Posts Forbes
Goodbye Twitter
My time with the blue bird is coming to a close and it feels like I have lost a friend.
Twitter, Why?
For a while now, Twitter has been constantly changing it’s code and API because of cost revenue changes at the corporation and turnover in the engineers. Following the takeover by Elon Musk, Twitter has continuously done strange things with the way that it handles its own code, tagging and unassigning ✅, and its own sharing…
ReBlog: Why Educators Should Use Twitter
Updated October 10, 2023.I can no longer support the use of Twitter. I am keeping this post in my feed as a record of my previous support. See my new posts here. Goodbye Twitter Part 1 and Part 2 Even after all the news about Elon Musk taking over Twitter, I still believe it is…
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