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.
- 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.
- Twitter isn't Twitter anymore. It's "X". You know what that reminds me of? A close button.
- Other social media platforms get more meaningful, natural engagement from actual people.
- 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.
- 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.
- Doom-scrolling has trapped you! You just keep scrolling far-right political posts and bad news all day and see almost nothing else.
- Twitter isn't as popular with your audience as it used to be and may be alienating them.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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

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?