Suspending your Twitter account means losing fans or part of your audience. This is the choice that the stars and the media have made to show their discontent with Elon Musk.
• Jim Carrey
The Canadian-American actor left Twitter on November 29, just weeks after Elon Musk took over Twitter. As a souvenir addressed to the billionaire, he published a cartoon of just over a minute with his voice-over, co-directed with Canadian animator Jimmy Hayward, leaving a message:
“I’m leaving Twitter, but first, here’s a cartoon I did with my friend Jimmy Hayward. It’s based on my painting of a crazy old lighthouse keeper standing naked in a storm calling up angels and guiding us with his light through a dangerous night. I love you all so much.”
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The singer also deleted her Twitter account on November 13. She announced on her Instagram account: “I deactivated my Twitter for normal/apparent reasons, so if anyone ever impersonates me, well it’s not me. See you here or on TikTok,” she wrote in her post. .
• Gigi Hadid
In this same wave of defection, the model made the decision to deactivate her account at the beginning of November. She said in a story on Instagram: “I have deactivated my Twitter account. For a long time, especially with the new owner, the network has become more and more a source of hate and bigotry.” She also said that she was sorry to cut off this channel of communication with her fans.
• Former CEO of Danone
Emmanuel Faber, director of Danone between 2014 and 2021, published his last tweet on November 17.
“Five years ago, the Twitter team asked me to use this platform to share my commitment to a just transition. Today, Twitter staff are being asked to make a choice: get fired or accept an ‘extremely harsh’ culture. At this level of inconsistency, I personally stopped using the platform at this point.”
• Balenciaga
The famous luxury brand quickly left the social network after the arrival of Elon Musk. On November 14, the account was nowhere to be found, despite having over a million subscribers. This departure occurred without any official explanation.
National Public Radio (NPR) is the first major medium left Twitter on April 12. NPR made its decision after Twitter’s name change. It appeared on the outlet’s account: “media affiliated with the American state.” Twitter then stepped back and said “government funded media.” Which is always wrong.
For his part, Elon Musk had personally added a layer while you tweet: “defund NPR.” The media ended up shutting down his account.
The CBC-Radio Canada Group announced on April 17 suspend your activities on the social network. A few days earlier, the group had been labeled “government-funded media.” As a last tweet, Radio Canada recalled that its “journalism is impartial and independent. To say otherwise is false. That is why we are suspending our activities on Twitter.”
In a press releasethe group directly denounced the actions of Elon Musk: “this network calls into question the accuracy and professionalism of the work carried out by our journalists”, recalling that the group is financed with public funds and not by the government.
On April 18 it was the turn of the Swedish public radio Sveriges Radio to announce his departure from the platform.“We need to focus and prioritize SR’s online presence, and Twitter has just changed throughout the year and has become less important to us,” the public outlet’s social media manager Christian Gillinger explained in a blog post. . This decision is above all the editorial line of the medium, which has not suffered any arbitrary modification to its Twitter account.
Chris Messina is the one who invented the hashtag on Twitter, and announced his departure from the platform last April 15. He even inserted a hashtag in his last tweet: “And it’s over. I no longer have a verified account. Not that I worry (I don’t care), but now it’s time to say goodbye. See you soon and Thank you for all these hashtags! “
He was one of the first 2,000 Twitter users. in another tweet which explains his departure from the platform, deplores the turn that Twitter has taken for six months, that is, since Elon Musk’s takeover.
Source: BFM TV
