Why I haven’t left Star Wars Twitter (and don’t plan to)

You never know what you’re going to find when you log onto Star Wars Twitter. Perhaps that’s one of the most beautiful things about it, even as the online community and the platform its built on balances on the edge of extinction.

The way I’ve used Twitter has changed drastically over the last few years. For me, it’s now become a platform for networking, asking questions, and continuing to interact with people I’ve met through the platform whom I may have otherwise never crossed paths with.

If you no longer wish to use Twitter to read bad takes and fight with anonymous trolls, it makes sense that you’d seriously consider leaving the growing dumpster fire behind. It has recently become much harder to continue seeing tweets from people you follow and unavoidable to see content from users you don’t know. Especially if you either don’t follow many accounts or don’t have a massive amount of followers.

There’s no right or wrong way to approach your changing relationship with Twitter. Maybe you’ve found a core group of people you like and already have an offline group chat going — you don’t need Twitter to stay connected to those you actually want to hear from.

Or maybe Twitter has helped you so much in the past — from meeting people when you felt alone to finding actual paying work — that you can’t justify giving it up until there’s a definite alternative that will provide the same essential benefits for you.

Star Wars Twitter makes me happy. I don’t go looking for tweets built to set me on fire (the bad kind). I actually like the occasional “For You” tweet from a completely random person that makes me think differently about a topic.

I like my friends. I like being open and available for new opportunities on a platform where I can easily be reached. And, OK, I like the occasional dumb Star Wars meme.

You can log off Twitter for good — many already have. I’ll stay until it stops being useful and fun (and/or until something better comes along).

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