Comment by quickthrower2
1 year ago
1. Don’t want to give Twitter their personal phone number
2. Twitter SMS system can’t deliver to personal number on my network so can’t create account.
3. Banned from Twitter already.
4. Hate Elon.
5. Ethics (various reason)
6. Privacy
7. A lot of work to read a hot take
8. Social media is addictive. The site gives you crack when you log in.
9. Chinese Firewall (and in some occupied lands it may be a crime to use Twitter)
10. Too many logins for shit already.
11. NSFW bot accounts trying to chat you up
12. Uncomfortable agreeing to their terms of service. (e.g. according to their own summary as well of the text, you are not permitted to learn from the experience of using their mobile app, e.g. about app design principles, because it is "solely for the purpose of enabling you to use and enjoy the benefit of the Services.")
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My guess is that it is 90% hate Elon, and the 10% extra (while true) is because most people want to sound balanced and not hinged.
Yes, I secretly quit Twitter in 2018 because I psychically learned that Elon would take it over in 2021 and hate him.
(Really though the actual delete account moment was their post-GDPR ultimatum to consent to tracking or delete your account)
1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 are pre-Elon problems.