I’m doing what I said I would, and I’ve deleted my Twitter and Identi.ca accounts today. I’ve backed up my list of followers and following, and as many tweets as I could download: Twitter only lets you have 3200 apparently and I can only get about 1600 with the tool I used,[1] and it seems a shame to lose that data but it’s gone anyway.

I’ve also finally nuked my Facebook account, in preparation for recreating it. It’s been deactivated for a year and a half so not a big deal. It’ll take two weeks to be fully deleted apparently.

Read this piece today; really good, totally agree and nicely stated.

Here are the stats:

Facebook account created 2008-08-01 (this is later than I expected)

Twitter account created 2008-04-20, 113 following, 294 followers, 19 listed, 7545 tweets

Identi.ca account created 2008-11-16, user id 29609, 32 following, 42 followers, 6 groups, 3910 dents

That should satisfy my nerd “I was there ages ago” desires.

Now I have to subscribe to all the people I still want to follow via RSS; this means I shall lose access to the ~2 protected feeds I used to follow but I can live with that (sorry Joe :().

[1] The authors of that tool should add \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} to their preamble to fix some encoding errors I noticed…