I have ZERO sympathy for people moaning about Twitter
Especially well known people (Dan Bongino at the moment, but he is just one current example of many)
I do agree that Twitter is managed in a biased and unfair manner... with a clear POLITICAL AGENDA. The owners are using their site to meddle, not just in elections, but to meddle in LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING. So...... WHY BE PART OF IT????
CLOSE YOUR FUCKING TWITTER ACCOUNT... IDIOTS!
(and/or STOP READING Twitter)
And to those who say "that would be cutting off your nose to spite your face", I say... You either have standards or you don't.
Ethical standards, principles. and "The Moral high ground" is all about STANDING for what is right, not what is personally expedient.
It is hypocritical to moan about "Twitter" while at the same time being "part of twitter" yourself.
Using it to publish your opinions/message, and competing/grovelling for praise and approval... Tarting for "Followers"....
You are by definition a WHORE!!
And those demanding (government) control of Twitter.. taking them to task for political bias, putting RULES AND LAWS in place... policing what Twitter can and can't do.... WTF happened to "Free Market Principles"??
If you stopped using twitter (and advised your huge follower group to quit and also advise their followers.. on and on...).. then surely Twitter would "get the message"... do without YOUR patronage, or change their ways. Bloggers (and supposed "journalists") often USE quoted tweets as part of their blog or "news" article... often an article is just a repost of a twitter discussion.. a stream of tweets back and forth posted as embedded tweets. THAT is just "Lazy journalism"... How about WRITING and describing a discussion at the very least... not just paste a stream of tweets? If for no other reason than... Twitter DO censor/delete/suspend twitter accounts and so embedded tweets VANISH. A writer's assumed "archive of great works", may well end up as a lot of blank spaces, where tweets once were. A writer certainly opens himself up to that being a possibility.. and the survival of his work intact being at the whim of (corrupt and biased) twitter management.
A Typical Twitter discussion....
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