Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now
I&#x27;m not leaving Twitter. It seems more likely than not that Elon will reverse the ban on links to other social media sites. I just don&#x27;t want to hang out there in the meantime. Plus given the way things are going, it seemed like a good time to learn about alternatives.<p>I still think Elon is a smart guy. His work on cars and rockets speaks for itself. Nor do I think he&#x27;s the villain a lot of people try to make him out to be. He&#x27;s eccentric, definitely, but that should be news to no one. Plus I don&#x27;t think he realizes that the techniques that work for cars and rockets don&#x27;t work in social media. Those two facts are sufficient to explain most of his behavior.<p>He could still salvage the situation. He&#x27;s the sort of person it would be a big mistake to write off. And I hope he does. I would be delighted to go back to using Twitter regularly.