[New post] Twitter sucks. It really, really sucks.
SLCC COMM 2400 Blog posted: " The Q stands for crazy. In 2019, I made what I believe was one of my wisest life decisions and deleted my Facebook account. Still in the grips of an acute social media addiction, I turned to Twitter instead, which is now my only social media indulgenc" COMM2400 - Social Media Tools and Strategies
In 2019, I made what I believe was one of my wisest life decisions and deleted my Facebook account. Still in the grips of an acute social media addiction, I turned to Twitter instead, which is now my only social media indulgence. At the time I was critiquing my own writing style and adjusting for the times. Practically what that meant was I had to avoid the tl;dr, as too many words are a huge turnoff for most Americans. I figured with a limit of 140 characters I could get some solid practice with the whole brevity thing.
This proved exceedingly difficult for me - I'm just a wordy guy. This made Twitter something that satiated my social media cravings, but provided a bonus benefit of 'self-improvement' in terms of self control - I viewed the limitation as an advantage. Shortly after I joined the cult, the leader guy threw me a bone and doubled the character count, a move I can only imagine was a way to make Twitter more addictive, which is fine because addiction is my jam apparently.
When I joined Twitter, the American ideological divide was all the rage, and QAnon was front and center. It was truly the most interesting time to be alive. I decided that the game I would play on Twitter was to follow the extreme right cheerleaders as well as the extreme left cheerleaders, partly because I love to watch train wrecks, but truly I just wanted to know what I was dealing with. This I would strongly advise anyone against - you don't want to know.
If you are sufficiently masochistic or you just want to watch the world burn, join the cult and indulge. Twitter is one of the greatest shit-shows ever!
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