Where To Next, Peeps?

Many years ago, when DW and I were looking ahead to our next car and we were considering going fully electric, we actually looked to Tesla, among other auto manufacturers. We actually voiced that we would buy a Tesla, in spite of its owner, Elon Musk.

"Twitter Musk" via Neural Blender.

By the time we came to actually needing to replace one of our cars, I told DW, "You couldn't pay me to take a Tesla. There's no way I'd want to have anything that's associated with that a$$hole."

I've made a lot of friends on Twitter. Many, I've met in real life, and there are those who I would drop everything to help out, if needed. Some of my dearest friends started out as Twitter acquaintances.

And now, the guy who could never sell me one of his cars just bought this social media platform for his own ego. And it breaks my heart.

When I think of what I would do if I had some $44 billion to spend, I like to think I would use it to help house and feed the needy. To put it toward medical research. To help fix my country's aging infrastructure.

To help Ukraine fight Putin.

What a colossal waste of money.

Having Musk in control of Twitter leaves a shitty bitterness in my mouth. It makes me want to walk away from the platform. But where do I go?

I want to keep in touch with the virtual friends that I've gotten to know over the more than 11 years that I've been on Twitter. I know that some of my connections are also thinking of jumping ship, and if that's the case, where do we go?

I'm going to watch and wait to see where my peeps go. I'd like to keep in touch. A good percentage of the traffic to The Brown Knowser comes from Twitter. I'd still like to keep those followers.

But I think my days on Twitter are numbered.

(Just curious: what happens if everyone who is against Musk's purchase of Twitter blocks him on the platform?)