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Re:Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet by fernandotakai on Thursday July 16, 2020 @11:03AM (#23859692)
not only that but how partisan blue checks are.

i felt the same: a lot of middle ground conversation, but nobody was calling out each other with quoted RTs.

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Re:Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet by api on Thursday July 16, 2020 @11:14AM (#23859821)
That's how you get to be a Twitter celebrity: be either divisive or entertainingly obnoxious. Be a clown or lead a lynch mob.

It also overlaps to some extent with how you get to be a real celebrity, but social media makes the effect more extreme.

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