Celebrities, Lefties Claim They Are Leaving Twitter But Their Accounts Remain Open

Hordes of primarily left-leaning tweeters have been forced to scramble in response to Elon Musk's takeover of the social media platform, if not for the exits then at least for a social media backup plan.

Disgruntled Twitter users left the service in waves in search of workable substitutes. When Twitter approved Musk's $44 billion offer to buy the social media business in April, the first one became public. When he finished the acquisition in October, the second came out.

The Tesla billionaire's more provocative actions as Twitter's chief tweeter have been followed by additional wavelets and ripples, including the firing of half of Twitter's staff, the restoration of the former President Trump's suspended account, and most recently, the five-word post "My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci," which made fun of both the queer and public health communities.

Some disgruntled Twitter users have deleted their accounts. Thousands more have flocked to the virtual doors of previously unnoticed platforms Mastodon, Hive, and Post while maintaining their Twitter usernames and adopting new ones on other websites.

Currently, social media colonists are working to reestablish their networks on new platforms while monitoring the old one to see how the Twitter battles develop. David Karpf, a political scientist at the George Washington University, declared, "I fear Twitter is crumbling apart. I'll be one of the last users to stop using Twitter, too. In 2008, Karpf joined Twitter. He built up a following one tweet at a time up until 2019, when he wrote a post comparing Bret Stephens, a conservative columnist, to a bedbug. Stephens cried foul. The conversation spread widely. Karpf's supporters erupted.