My Twitter account is currently locked and I don't look at it, but I'm hard deleting it this month. If you have a Twitter account you don't read, I also recommend full deletion before Nov. 15. Here's why.

Twitter has their TOS now in an unusual state x.com/en/tos with two copies of the TOS printed one after the other, with a notice the new TOS goes active November 15.

The major difference I see is starting Nov 15 they give themselves explicit rights to train AI models on your posts.

Concerningly, the wording of the new TOS implies they can / intend to do AI training even on accounts marked "private". The TOS says they will respect your choice to "limit distribution… to a restricted community"— but only in the EU version, and per my read (I am not a lawyer) this applies only to "mak[ing] content available", not training. I could be wrong on this point, but I am choosing not to take the risk.

If you have sensitive content on a private Twitter account, think about this hard.

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@mcc I have a feeling that even if you try to delete yourself it won't actually remove your data from training at this point

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