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Reasons You Should Leave Twitter: Late 2025 Edition

Sat, 04 Oct 2025, by Syrsly

Here's a simple list of reasons you should leave The Site Formerly Known As Twitter from the perspective of someone who hasn't used it in nearly a year and deleted their account a while ago and has no intention of ever going back. This list should help you realize Twitter/X is a shitty website you don't want to be involved with anymore.

  1. Elon Musk, the owner of X, helped Donald Trump win the 2024 presidential election. He didn't just endorse Trump; Musk offered people money to vote for Trump.
  2. Twitter isn't Twitter anymore. It's "X". You know what that reminds me of? A close button.
  3. Other social media platforms get more meaningful, natural engagement from actual people.
  4. Twitter costs money now. It's no longer ad-powered. It charges a membership fee for half its features and even the verification marks are paid content now, making them pointing.
  5. Twitter has too many bots and not enough self-moderation tools. In contrast, Bluesky has tons of moderation tools and lets you create your own automated feeds.
  6. Doom-scrolling has trapped you! You just keep scrolling far-right political posts and bad news all day and see almost nothing else.
  7. Twitter isn't as popular with your audience as it used to be and may be alienating them.
  8. X is full of far-right political accounts and drama. You're seeing too much hate and intolerance there. Go somewhere more self-moderated and you'll be able to focus on what you want to see rather than be at the whims of an algorithm.
  9. You can't seem to find your friends on X anymore. They've all moved on to greener pastures... well, bluer skies, anyway, and things are looking up for them.
  10. You want to follow a topic in a smart way and not rely on everyone to use the same specific hashtags. cough VR feed on Bsky cough

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I hope some part of this list helps you or a loved one finally light that fire under their butt and move to another social platform, even if it's only a hour or two on Spacehey every month. Every little bit counts, right?