This post was last updated on March 8, 2026
To me X will always be Twitter. My first Twitter post, I really don’t remember if they were called tweets at that point, was April 9, 2007 and the content of that Tweet was “work”. Highly valuable words for posterity. Since that time I’ve posted:
Tweets – 863, Replies – 211, and Retweets – 419
With AI, ownership of content is getting very blurry. The current Terms of Service for X state:
You agree that this license includes the right for us to (i) analyze text and other information you provide and to otherwise provide, promote, and improve the Services, including, for example, for use with and training of our machine learning and artificial intelligence models, whether generative or another type; and (ii) to make Content submitted to or through the Services available to other companies, organizations or individuals, including, for example, for improving the Services and the syndication, broadcast, distribution, repost, promotion or publication of such Content on other media and services, subject to our terms and conditions for such Content use. Such additional uses by us, or other companies, organizations or individuals, is made with no compensation paid to you with respect to the Content that you submit, post, transmit or otherwise make available through the Services as the use of the Services by you is hereby agreed as being sufficient compensation for the Content and grant of rights herein.
I know, lots of companies have rights or access to our personal information and data of one type or another. But I’m not a fan of Elon Musk, his companies, or his AI. Twitter’s decline since October 2022 when Musk bought it has been documented by many media outlets, including The Guardian. (The demise of Twitter: how a ‘utopian vision’ for social media became a ‘toxic mess‘)
I’ll keep my account because it’s @librarymonk and I’ll keep the things I reposted to my account because it’s not really my content. But the rest of it is getting deleted. And since Twitter doesn’t have a bulk delete feature, I used a service called TweetDelete.