Speaking of Twitter

[dewline]

How does one go about deleting one's own direct messages "in bulk"?

Or should I just kill my account completely now?

Comments

[armiphlage]

It would be nice if there was a way to poison the data, by continuing to post innocuous random twits to an abandoned account. This would protect users from weaponized datamining by making them seem boringly average (or making the account seem to be that of someone other than the target of an attack), while the deliberately bland account would interfere with marketing or social engineering campaigns targeting the general public.

[dewline]

Sounds entertainingly mischievous.

[telophase]

I use cheapbotsdonequick.com for my titles_bot and randomprompts Twitter bot accounts. It's fairly easy to spin up a Mad Libs-style random tweet generator using Tracery. The only issue is that it tweets on a regular schedule that you pick: once a day, once an hour, once a week, etc. so if anyone's using regularity as a way to detect bots, you'd want to log in periodically and change that or hit the "Tweet Now" button to make it tweet off-schedule.

[thewayne]

Yeah, I should be thinking about archiving mine and finding some other place to go.

[cmcmck]

I've never used it but it seems a lot of people are pulling out.

[dewline]

Looks like. Here already seems as good a place to retreat to as anywhere else.

[cmcmck]

That was my view when I pulled from LJ.

I'd been here via an invite code from the early days and x posting to there when I finally had to do it, so it wasn't too much of a thing.

[dewline]

And we each certainly had reasons to call it quits with LJ because Putin.

[sabotabby]

I can't kill twitter. It's my only reliable source of covid info.

[dewline]

...yeah. siderea aside...lots of valid sources re: COVID info there for now. And what will they be able to use as an alternative to get the word out?

[mellowtigger]

I'm keeping my SARS-only account on Twitter for now while abandoning my main account. As soon as I have a reliable way of finding the latest data and publishing, then I'll leave that one too. Musk has already removed the "COVID" tab from the main page, so I'm sure the misinformation will be piling up soon. When the aggressive ones pile onto the doctors, nurses, and researchers trying to inform people, then they'll leave too.