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Exit Stonehenge
10 November 2022
Over the last few days, I’ve been having slightly different versions of the same conversation at work, which usually starts with someone asking me, “What’s going on at Twitter?” I’ve been filling them in with the high-level updates, but not going into the gory, hourly details unless they have been following closely enough for each new drama to make sense to them. But after today’s developments, I have been adding a little bit of instruction to my conversations about the kinds of precautions they should be taking if they have a Twitter account.
I sent a note with some advice to our team chat, then ended up creating a longer document to share with our entire department. I revised it a bit since, but I wanted to share it with you, too. So, I bring you “A Public Service Announcement for anyone using Twitter.”
As you may have heard, new ownership at my former employer has made some … changes … to the product recently. Without editorializing about them here, I do want to share a couple of recommendations in light of the company’s chief information security officer, chief privacy officer, and chief compliance officer all resigning last night (doing these things on the desktop site is fastest):
1) Download your data- If you want to be able to access any of your posted Tweets, images, and videos, even if the site implodes, request…
