Dear “family & friends”,
Just a quick update that I have decided to leave Twitter.
Actually, I am not happy with it for quite some while already.
I am basically fine with Elon‘s mindset towards “free speech”. And I appreciate him as an inspiring innovator challenging existing dogmas. But I am not happy with Elon’s autistic not-consideration of me as a customer.
The renaming to “X” … is OK for me. If you are (partially) living in the digital space for >30 years like me, you have learned that nothing is for eternity.
But what really hit and annoyed me has been “X”‘s unilateral decision to cut all API connections. Which simply makes it much more difficult and painful to use for me personally.
This came together with the fact that over the past years X/Twitter became less and less relevant to me and actually adding no value to my life anymore. I don’t really remember last time I got useful information from there. It feels being less and less useful information, but more and more false information from all sides. Less and less listening & discussion, but more and more “shouting”. And to very honest, I value my lifetime too much to waste it.
You anyhow know where to reach me (otherwise you wouldn’t read this ;-)). And I continue looking forward to having controversial, challenging and opinionated discussions … but always based on mutual respect and open mindsets.
Best
Christian
