Long Overdue: No more ACA Signups links on Twitter/X.

This is long overdue, I realize, but I've finally decided to stop posting links to ACASignups.net on Twitter/X, period.

I made the decision to stop posting there a few times in the past--when Elon Musk first took over the platform; when he made "verified accounts" meaningless; and most recently, when he performed a Nazi salute on stage.

Each time, however, a few days later I would always convince myself that the positive I was doing by keeping more people informed about the latest developments in U.S. healthcare policy outweighed the negative of continuing to post there.

The other reason I kept cross-posting blog links was more about the data nerd in me: For over a decade I've tracked the traffic to this website across different platforms, and Twitter was always a major part of that, so I wanted to see it through, at least until I reached a natural stopping point.

You can certainly question my logic on both of these rationalizations until now, of course, but that's where my mind was at.

So what's changed?

Well, for starters, New Year's Eve 2025 was indeed a natural stopping point.

More importantly, however, it was the development last week that degenerates have started using "Grok," the AI engine baked into Musk's Twitter/X platform, to generate CSAM (if you don't know what the acronym stands for, look it up).

That was the final straw for me.

P.S. As you can see from the graph below, traffic to ACASignups.net from Twitter/X has dropped off to nominal amounts over the past year anyway (with the exception of February, where a prominent repost of the link to my CDC.gov website archive project received a massive spike in traffic for a few days). I'll still likely receive some traffic from Twitter/X due to others posting links to ACASignups.net...I just won't be the one doing so any longer.

P.P.S. As for why I don't simply delete my account over there outright, there's two reasons: First, I don't want anyone stealing my handle to impersonate me; second, I'll still be posting fundraising links for candidates I support over there since those are still somewhat effective. I may even stop doing that after November, however.

In any event, you can follow me at Bluesky instead.