When Elon Musk’s $44 billion Twitter acquisition closed in late October, the Canadian researcher Alex Haagaard tweeted a proposal, forgoing punctuation the way people do on the platform: “Since we’re all talking about leaving Twitter again can I bring back the idea of migrating to LinkedIn en masse and just totally destroying the professional vibe over there,” they wrote.
Fearing that Musk's policies will further enable hate speech and misinformation on the site, Twitter users have spent the last month publicly debating whether to leave or hang on until it possibly dies of natural causes, starved of support from engineers and advertisers. With a growing list of users departing Twitter daily, the hunt is on for the next platform to fill the void Twitter’s death would create for its 300 million monthly active users.
