Do journalists pay too much attention to Twitter? (2018)

Re:Do journalists pay too much attention to Twitter? (2018) by falsaberN1 on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @11:06AM (#23832787)

The funny thing is that 4chan and twitter aren't that different in terms of hate and troll. They were at some point, but the lines keep blurring. Sure you can find places in twitter that aren't toxic cesspools, but you can also find that in 4chan (/m/ for example).

The weirdest thing is that people in twitter is doing 4chan tier stuff under their real names and faces, which is just baffling to me. I always thought the whole 4chan loltroll hate machine thing was because of anonymity, but I'm starting to reconsider that stance.

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Re:Do journalists pay too much attention to Twitter? (2018) by eropple on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @11:14AM (#23832875)

Anonymity wasn't why the 4chan hate machine would fire up--it was because a few people could look like a lot of people. It looked like you had a mob right at hand.

Now, there are a lot of people, and bots besides.

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Re:Do journalists pay too much attention to Twitter? (2018) by falsaberN1 on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @11:43AM (#23833265)

Hmm, that's an interesting take. I always thought it was the "I can say whatever and they'll never know it was me, mwahaha the perfect crimeeee!" or something.

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Re:Do journalists pay too much attention to Twitter? (2018) by eropple on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @03:36PM (#23836691)

People have never had a problem with their names on atrocities when they had other people at their back.

The Salem witch trials are an obvious example, to me.

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