Tweetless

Yesterday, I finally deactivated my Twitter account (by deleting all my tweets). The platform I’ve used since 2009 no longer feels useful to me.

I liked Twitter for many years. I enjoyed the communities, the different opinions, the simple interface, and the steady algorithm. Unlike Facebook and other platforms that constantly changed, Twitter stayed the same, and that was nice.

But now, I don’t enjoy being there. I respect the freedom of expression, but the platform has turned into a place for manipulation. Honesty and truth feel lost. Instead of real thoughts, we see spam, fake ads, and pointless arguments.

For a long time, people have been using social media (Instagram, Snapchat as well) as a source of dopamine and a tool to fill their lives. This has turned the feed being nothing more than the shared content.

I have sent 9,742 tweets, mostly conversations with friends. But I don’t think they matter. Today’s social media culture is obsessed with the present and shaped by “recency bias.” So deleting my tweets feels right.

I believe that my permanent digital presence should reamin focused on my platform, okanbilal.com, a space that contains my general ideas. I may still visit Twitter without posting, but probably not for long. With the way things are going, I think it will lose its place in my life completely.