It's time to close your Twitter account. I've been trying to comprehend the thought process behind *not* closing it and I can't. The best answer I have heard is that it's "where the fight is." But that's not true. The fight isn't interacting with leftists on the site, it's with the platform itself. Out-debating a leftwing lunatic isn't winning. Making Twitter the next Myspace is.
Twitter worked to stifle free speech for the sole purpose of interfering in the election and handing our country over to communists. And they were successful. When Kamala Harris becomes president, know that Twitter played a major role in that. There's not a conservative anywhere that would deny that. They suspended the President of the United States, then went on to suspend, in many cases permanently, other high-profile conservatives.
And what has been the reaction from our side?
As the left boycotts everything that a Republican has ever touched, we have sat back and watched them.
Laura Loomer. Alex Jones. Years of shadow-banning. Perjury in front of Congress to deny it all. The reaction?
Nothing.
Someone watching from the outside would think that, at some point, there would be a straw that breaks the camel's back. It seems they would be wrong.
So what is the plan to fight the suppression of free speech across the dominant social media? To wait for Twitter to become even more influential, and more difficult to displace, and more powerful to suppress free speech? Only 22% of Americans use Twitter. Will it be easier to deal with this when that number is 30%? 40%? 50%? But about when they buy up a few other emerging platforms and turn those into leftwing thought incubators the way Facebook has done with Instagram and Whatsapp? So yeah, we should all be closeing Facebook as well. And avoid using Google and Amazon. One thing at a time. A mass exodus leading to the collapse of Twitter would be a nice shot across the bow to start.
There are viable alternatives right now. Parler.com is having issues but Gab.com seems to be mostly up to speed after a massive influx of users. Honestly, Gab's interface and usability is far superior to Parler, not to mention that they have built a proprietary foundation which indicates that they are smart, innovative, and forward thinking. No, I'm not affiliated with Gab in any way. I'm just a user. There is also Telegram and probably a few others I'm not aware of.
The time to close your Twitter account is now. Play a role in building up one of the alternatives. Build up *all* the alternatives. Things will shake out and a leader will emerge.
According to Pew, on Twitter, 10% of the users create 80% of the content. If a third of those users walk away, they instantly have a 25% reduction in content. That's devastating, and it would only be the start of the downward spiral.
If you walk away, your fans will follow.
