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I’ve been fairly active on Twitter since Trump’s inauguration with over 10K tweets that have been, to the best of my ability, mostly thoughtful and carefully written. After two and a half years I have a fewer than 500 followers, which is pretty pathetic by Twitter standards.
Yesterday, Rep. Devin Nunes filed a defamation lawsuit against Twitter and a couple of Twitter account holders: Devin Nunes’ Mom and Devin Nunes’ Cow. Twitter went crazy. Hundreds of new accounts mocking Nunes were spawned in a matter of hours. I decided to jump into the fray with Devin Nunes’ Left Nut (@leftdevin), with a pinned tweet of “Devin said he’d give me to become a congressman, now I’m in a jar somewhere in the Kremlin.”
I’ve made maybe a dozen tweets on that account, yet 24 hours later, it has over 100 followers.
Go figure.
I’ve been fairly active on Twitter since Trump’s inauguration with over 10K tweets that have been, to the best of my ability, mostly thoughtful and carefully written. After two and a half years I have a fewer than 500 followers, which is pretty pathetic by Twitter standards.
Yesterday, Rep. Devin Nunes filed a defamation lawsuit against Twitter and a couple of Twitter account holders: Devin Nunes’ Mom and Devin Nunes’ Cow. Twitter went crazy. Hundreds of new accounts mocking Nunes were spawned in a matter of hours. I decided to jump into the fray with Devin Nunes’ Left Nut (@leftdevin), with a pinned tweet of “Devin said he’d give me to become a congressman, now I’m in a jar somewhere in the Kremlin.”
I’ve made maybe a dozen tweets on that account, yet 24 hours later, it has over 100 followers.
Go figure.
Quality over quantity!
@Just_2_Badd
Quality over quantity!
@Just_2_Badd
Over 250 followers now. It took me over a year to get that many on my regular account.
Since I don't do twatter, you get me as a follower here. That shit is priceless funny in my estimation. Carry on wayward son....
Up to 343 followers as of 09:30 PDT
And they say, when it comes to politics and social media, that it never pays to stoop to the Lowest Common Denominator...:hahano:
kb2vxa
03-22-2019, 06:15 AM
Twaddler: "Great minds exchange idea, mediocre minds discuss events; small minds talk about people." Why would a left nut in a jar be so popular on Twaddler? Small minds talk twaddle. When Twitter and its twaddles first came out a noted Englishman called users twits, nothing has changed. It must be awfully boring sitting in that jar not understanding Russian. (But good for laughs, thanks.)
PA5COR
03-22-2019, 03:54 PM
I don't do social media at all, seems to be the best option.
n6hcm
03-23-2019, 12:55 AM
@henare ... but not on so much lately. i use tweetdeck when i'm on, and that helps me filter out so much of the outrage ...
suddenseer
03-23-2019, 09:38 AM
Carl, you are the only one I know on there so far.
VK1EA
03-24-2019, 02:34 AM
Up to 343 followers as of 09:30 PDT
These ones have more followers than you:
https://worldwideinterweb.com/the-50-dumbest-tweets-of-all-time/
kb2vxa
03-24-2019, 08:12 AM
So, are they vieing for the Pied Piper Award?
These ones have more followers than you:
https://worldwideinterweb.com/the-50-dumbest-tweets-of-all-time/
Having been on Twitter for a while, I can’t even fathom choosing a mere fifty dumbest tweets out of all the dumb tweets on that site. I could come up with that many in a single day.
kb2vxa
03-25-2019, 08:15 AM
>IF< I had the slightest interest in "social media" aka twits, I could come up with the 50 dumbest in less than 50 seconds, just search tRump.
VK1EA
03-25-2019, 08:40 AM
I remember the beginnings of the internet, I was at the uni back then.
Internet was about a) knowledge and b) students sharing photos of lovely ladies with little or no clothes at all.
I don't know how we ended here.
KG4CGC
03-25-2019, 03:33 PM
Having been on Twitter for a while, I can’t even fathom choosing a mere fifty dumbest tweets out of all the dumb tweets on that site. I could come up with that many in a single day.
I haven't been a twit. I'm just getting into my groove with Instagram.
I remember the beginnings of the internet, I was at the uni back then.
Internet was about a) knowledge and b) students sharing photos of lovely ladies with little or no clothes at all.
I don't know how we ended here.
Not enough bare naked ladies? :bbh: :dunno:
I remember the beginnings of the internet, I was at the uni back then.
Internet was about a) knowledge and b) students sharing photos of lovely ladies with little or no clothes at all.
I don't know how we ended here.
Don't forget ASCII art. I remember a lot of that from the days when ASCII was all the internet could do, and some of it was remarkably good.
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