Data mining shifts to high gear at Twitter?

[Snarkoleptic]

Anyone else notice a massive uptick in questions that seems designed to tease-out your demographic profile?
How old were you when (insert movie name here) came out?
Did you ever see Jaws as a first run movie a the theater?
Are you old enough to have used cassette tapes for music?
Lists of items you've done/eaten/used?
What food is your city/state best known for?


Seems like it's gone wild since the first of the year.
Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they're not mining data. (lol).

[ananda]

1. I quit twitter awhile back.

I've never even missed it.

[Snarkoleptic]

2. It's got a distincly musk-like stench.

I mainly us it to troll republicans and their news media bubble.

[applegrove]

3. I quit.

[Snarkoleptic]

5. They did some updates over the weekend, making is even less tolerable.

n/t

[applegrove]

8. It was a great place. So sad it has gone corrupt. No longer about

people connecting over authentic ideas for a better world.

[Timewas]

4. Dropped

Out of that place the when asshole took over.. No regrets

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. Haven't noticed this at all.

[Rebl2]

7. Glad I

have never been on twit. Have seen similar questions on instagram.

[Snarkoleptic]

9. It can probably be chalked up to-

When you use a free online service, you/your data are the product.

[Hortensis]

10. No, I only go to check what those I'm following are saying and never see that stuff.

I.e., choose "following" at the top of the home page. Those I follow talk about their fields and seldom mention Twitter itself, so I have to learn about what's going on from posts here and information media.

Btw, I "follow" dozens of people well regarded by others well regarded in their fields and none of them have left yet, though some have accounts up on other platforms.

[jeffreyi]

11. It's still ok for weather, flood, wildfire updates.

That's about it.

[kimbutgar]

12. I quit Twitter the day the muskrat took over

And I got a notice from my AAA security data monitoring that my Twitter account has been hacked and my email exposed to the dark web. Before Musk took over I never had this type of warning ever.

[Tree Lady]

13. I finally quit twitter today

found out I was part of last data breach. They didn't get much because I only read and followed people and never gave them private info, but they got my email and password.

I had been thinking of quitting last 6 months and that was last straw.