ELON Musk X seeks to reduce the decrease in active users every day, some people decide to completely abandon the social network, no matter what’s nothing better at all.
Since Tesla and SPACEX CEO acquired Twitter in 2022, many alternatives have grown and have been trying to collect people who are not satisfied with MUSK’s platform management. In some cases, there was no point when X turned the symbolic blue check mark into a paid function and made the symbol -related symbol into meaningless insignia. For others, Musk’s political influence was the last straw within the Trump administration. Or the moment may have come faster when the Musk restores the explanations of the known white supremacy, or when X blocks the user’s public post.
Perhaps this can be all of them, and I’m trying to reduce the screen time. Fair enough and more for you!
Nevertheless, if you are trying to make x your ex -x, keep reading.
How to download X Archive
In X, you can download a variety of data archives related to your account, including posts, uploaded media, direct messages and followers and followers. Whether you are planning to delete an account, this kind of data may be useful.
The archive contains some data that X may have collected for your account for advertising targeting, such as interests that X inferred about you or a demographic identifier. X and other social platforms learn this information according to interactive posts. For example, if you follow dozens of professional sports accounts, X will assume that it is a sports fan and show more advertisements related to sports.
Here’s how to download this archive from the desktop browser:
- Click the three point symbols under the left navigation bar.
- Search Settings and personal information.
- From there, you will take it to the screen. Your account. I can see the options to say there Download the data archive.
- Next, X will enter a password as a security prevention measure. That way, you can request data.
It may take a few days for the app to search and prepare the data, so do not warn if you do not receive the .zip file immediately. But if you want to disable or delete your account, wait until you get a link to download the archive. X cannot send this data to an inactive account.
What should I do before I delete my X account?
If you delete an X account, no one on the site can see your post or account. However, social networks cannot control search engines such as Google, which automatically indexes public posts. In other words, even if there is no link to the post, the post can still appear in the search results.
In addition, if you want to be careful, there are several stages that you can do to minimize the opportunity of the post.
If your post is not open, you don’t have to worry. However, in addition to the final deletion, even if the public account is private, the contents posted before protecting the account can be bought in the search results. You may be delayed in posting a search engine cache post and updating the dead link.
How to delete an X account
Alas, it’s time to log off now. If you feel too permanent and intimidating to delete an account, the options offer a 30 -day grace period to change your mind and revitalize. If you disable your account, your profile is no longer visible in X.
The method of disabling X accounts is as follows.
- In the desktop browser, click on the three dot symbols at the bottom of the left navigation bar.
- Search Settings and personal information.
- From there, you will take it to the screen. Your account. At the bottom of the list, the following options are displayed: Disable your account.
- Click to bring it to another page really I know what you are doing.
- Then click on the red button displayed. Disabled.
Of course, X does not want to delete an account, so it does not jump directly to the nuclear option. If you know that breaking up with X is a terrible mistake, X will still take you back unless the 30 -day window has passed.
Once disabled, 30 days do not log in to X, and the account is permanently deleted. Congratulations: You are free. Now go outside.
Which social platform should I use instead of X?
If you can’t shake an unsatisfactory post, you can see other apps that can scratch the itch, but you can have little baggage. Here are some alternatives to X that can fit your fantasy.
Bluesky
Bluesky is a micro blogging site built on an open source protocol. It is a lot of professional terms, but it means that the internal processing of Bluesky is more transparent at the surface level and that third -party developers can build on the app.
Those who do not trust large companies such as META and Google have the key to online social life. BlueSky’s open source characteristics may be appealing. This is because the user has more control than usual when using the company’s social products. But Bluesky is not a utopia. It is still a technology company that has raised $ 23 million in venture capital and should make investors happy. However, as a public benefit company, Bluesky has some obligations to do their best not only to the applicants but also to the user.
As of January 2025, Bluesky has about 30 million registered users. Before Donald Trump was elected in November 2024, there were 13 million users on social networks, but many X users surpassed the ship due to frustration of MUSK’s Trump campaign. Bluesky consists of projects on Twitter of former CEO and co -founder, Jack Dorsey, but the company is no longer related to X and Dorsey is no longer a member of the board of directors.
Masto
Like Bluesky, Mastodon is an open source social network and has longer results since 2016. BlueSky’s architecture remains under the hood. You do not need to know what the decentralized protocol is using the app. Mastodon’s settings are a bit more technical. For some people (such as many cyber security communities settled in Mastodon), this is advantageous for Mastodon. But if you are familiar with technology, Mastodon can be confused. Non -profit organizations take measures to simplify the subscription process and use the user as a “mastodon.social” server, so that people have written the default value as “mastodon.social” server instead of finding out which server to join before using the platform. .
According to open source data, as of January 2025, Mastodon has about 10 million registered users. The network has more than doubled since October 2022, when Elon Musk officially acquired Twitter.
Thread
The thread has a serious advantage in this space. Since META owns, you can smoothly send the following list from Instagram. Among all options, threads are the easiest to follow those who want to follow (BlueSky and Mastodon have a “Starter Pack” like the thread).
But the biggest benefit of Threads is also a fatal flaw. If people are already tired of META’s ecosystems, including Facebook and Whatsapp, Meta may not be able to jump on the opportunity to control more online experiences.
META CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in December 2024 that Threads has more than 100 million daily activity users and 300 million months active users and is much more popular than competitors. The integration with Instagram has a big head start, but the app is growing.
