... ugh, another one of my pet hates is the Trigger Warning tide...
Yes sorry, it was aimed at you since you're fed up with all that nonsense, but slathered in irony. Hopefully you resisted the urge to cllick thru
Aren’t trigger warnings just a way to attract more views anyway, like when the announcer on tv says "this programme contains scenes of gratuitous violence and wanton nudity from the outset"?
I only use twitter to check occ on a few musicians. After all, why invest time and emotional attachment in something which is basically set up to promote the tweeter and sell the follower to online advertisers. To me how a big number of users uses twitter seems very misguided - as if they record some banality-talk in pubs or cafes and put it out there on twitter. Also problematic, and as stated in some of the above posts, are the bubbles that this and similar services push you.
well yes obvs but there are lots of people who do have interesting stuff to say that doesn’t make it into the msm - i curate my feed gently and find it reliably comes up with links to useful/interesting stuff. i also like the direct access to tweeters, so you can tweak piers morgan's virtual nose very directly if you feel the need, the unfilteredness cuts both ways.
Is it interesting to consider what might happen if these celebs actually
did something instead of just tweeting - does their perceived status give them influence in the real world, and does twitter/online waste that potential?