Thread by @SethAbramson

(📢) To cause as much pro-Bluesky, Twitter ToS-compliant mayhem on this platform as I can, if you RETWEET this tweet enough times that I hit 1M followers I will in that instant tweet out my final Bluesky invite code.

I doubt this will work, but I’ll make that promise to you all.

PS/ My goal here is to show how badly people want off this platform. I do not believe there is much point to hitting 1M followers on Twitter because I believe Twitter is a zombie social media platform that is already effectively dead and will be totally dead very soon. Seriously.

PS2/ So if you RETWEET the first tweet in this thread you are, far more importantly than anything else, underscoring that you want off his sh*thole social media platform—now filled with pornbots and far-right trolls and crypto-bro Elongelicals—just as much as the rest of us do.

PS3/ So again, to be clear, I do not care about the 1M followers. I want to make a point here. And this is that point:

PS4/ Wondering if Elon personally throttles accounts he’s indicated he hates, like mine? Well, this thread is approaching 200 retweets in just a few minutes and this is how many followers Elon has allowed this feed to gain: zero

Click image to enlarge and you’ll see for yourself

PS5/ That’s the other point being made here—to overcome the algorithmic stunts Elon is pulling to destroy progressive feeds and critics specifically, the amount of combined action by Twitter users it takes is positively *astounding*

We’re all in a nepo-baby billionaire’s playpen

PS6/ BTW, if you want to know how badly Elon wants to keep folks off Bluesky let me put it this way: both Jack Dorsey and Yoel Roth are on Bluesky right now answering any question asked of them about Musk and his disgustingly cynical takeover of a now-broken social media platform

PS7/ 250 retweets of this thread, net follower gain: zero.

Thank you, @elonmusk, for making my point for me.

You have desperately throttled the feeds of your critics.

This feed gained thousands of followers every month for half a decade, and has lost 39,000+ since you arrived.

PS8/ No one here can defeat Elon—it's a beating-the-master-with-the-master's-tools situation. Any feed he wants to see pop gains literally hundreds of thousands of followers overnight. Any account that criticizes him or promotes other platforms can only lose followers thereafter.

PS9/ This is the sort of content over at Bluesky that Elon Musk doesn't want anyone here to see: those who know him and have worked for him saying clearly that they know that he can't be held accountable and will never be held accountable for his misconduct because of his wealth.

PS10/ This thread now has 345 retweets in about a half hour.

Net follower change for this feed? -2.

I hope folks will believe me now when I say that we’re all literally sitting in the middle of a chintzy plush baby’s playpen where Elon the Troll personally decides what happens.

PS11/

RETWEETS: 440
NET FOLLOWER CHANGE: -2

There is nothing a Musk critic can do anymore to grow on this platform. That has been clear for months now but I did really want to drive the point home. You criticize Musk at your peril. And if you criticize him, he wants you *gone*.

PS12/ I swear I was and am not trying to screw with people here. There is absolutely nothing you can do to push this feed to 1M followers. Or 975K followers. Or 950K followers. Or 925K followers. Or 920K followers. All the traffic is algorithmically handled to be pro-Elon. But...

PS13/ ...I certainly want everyone to know that if you somehow crack the code—figure out how to return the Twitter algorithm to actual free-speech mode—I will *of course* fulfill my promise and immediately tweet out a Bluesky invite code. I am sad that Elon makes that impossible.

PS14/

RETWEETS: 538
NET FOLLOWER CHANGE: -4

If there could be an actual #TwitterFiles dump sorted through by actual—non-Elon-pet—journalists, what we would learn about how Musk has tampered with the Twitter algorithm to punish progressives and his critics would *blow your mind*

PS15/ An update:

RETWEETS: 614
NET FOLLOWER CHANGE (not a typo): -40

UPDATE/ OK, I think I made my point with my pinned tweet. It’s now at 750 retweets as the new Musk Algorithm continues to take away my followers (-41 since I posted info that would naturally cause a follower influx).

🚨: I will post my final Bluesky invite code here at 7:50PM ET