{"id":78637,"date":"2024-11-13T07:27:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T07:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=78637"},"modified":"2024-11-13T07:27:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T07:27:13","slug":"time-to-leave-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/11\/13\/time-to-leave-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to leave Twitter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/34b6fc20-23f7-4e08-9ac4-ef05d5d66c13?accessToken=zwAGJsb-6bhwkc80tvwgI_dOCNOaxO8F1dZsEw.MEUCIFPlDcMmJr5_cTpgfTYI62Ucm3U4QrKBpVkGrtPY4ZQyAiEAw-4YaURSvDSqSs9OSnXuhL1bxjrNAd6v4w-C_18r_PY&amp;sharetype=gift&amp;token=878c0cca-84c9-40e7-b2d0-07dd20ace27f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FT notes<\/a> this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Elon Musk\u2019s support for Donald Trump is set to boost X\u2019s flagging business, with some marketers poised for a return to the social media platform in order to seek favour with the incoming administration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That might be true, but the rate of return on their investment might be poor.<\/p>\n<p>I have noticed a steady decline in the number of my Twitter followers over recent months, and I am not alone in doing so. I do not think that I am losing popularity. I think that the platform is. And, with it now being confirmed that Musk is to work with Trump to cut the size of the federal government, I think that the likelihood that a large number of people might feel that it is time to declare that their use of Twitter (I refuse to call X) should come to an end might have come.<\/p>\n<p>I have not quite reached this point as yet. Trump is not as yet in office, and neither is Musk. But, on 20th January I will have a decision to make. Much as I've enjoyed my time on Twitter, will it be time to leave it behind?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the FT notes this morning: Elon Musk\u2019s support for Donald Trump is set to boost X\u2019s flagging business, with some marketers poised for a<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/11\/13\/time-to-leave-twitter\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78638,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78637\/revisions\/78638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}