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Bonnie Canelakes's avatar

Of course I’m not a journalist, don’t make my living on SM-just an interested observer and ‘word freak’ (both my parents were writers), if it helps anyone, I was a multi-times-per-day user and yes, sometime doomscroller. I had a problem-easier to tame than I thought tho. I deactivated. For 2 and a half weeks. Cold turkey (thanks to Substack’s writers, WTFJHT and ImproveTheNews for that btw). Then reactivated and moved the app to screen 2 on my phone. (I should add I only use SM on my phone or pad, never from a computer.) Now finding I hit Twitter maybe once per day now. It’s importance in my life has fallen in parallel to it’s fall from grace. And that is, in essence, what we’re seeing with Musk’s Twitter. If this helps anyone, my job here is done. 😉 Thanks to you all for your perseverance. And Richard-your sense of humor..still muahhh (chef kiss!)

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C Rivers's avatar

I thought I would’ve left Twitter before you, but I’ve been quietly quitting Twitter for the past month and a half. You’ve inspired me to make a clean break. I’ll give myself till the end of the week, what with all the shadowbanning, there’s no real reason to stay.

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