The new silent majority: People who don't tweet

Re:The new silent majority: People who don't tweet by jamesfe on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @01:57PM (#30604394)

This exactly. I once tried the twitter game, I thought it was important to have a big following or say clever things, whatever.

I was lightly burned by a tweet (of my own authoring) once, and I thought "I make $XYZ per year, twitter pays me nothing, this joke tweet caused me a lot of stress, the odds that being on twitter will get me cancelled will cost me $XYZ are non-zero and I don't control them"

Then I deleted all my tweets and my twitter account (8 years ago) and life has been really nice without it!

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Re:The new silent majority: People who don't tweet by vasco on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @02:05PM (#30604598)

Exact same story except recently I created an empty account with private lists that I follow (so not even the people I "follow" is public), and I can still keep up with some topics from a source of information that generally is on the bleeding edge. Usually I find things in twitter / discord first, then they hit Reddit, then mainstream media. If you only follow reddit you have a slight delay currently, and for some of my interests, fresh information is helpful.

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Re:The new silent majority: People who don't tweet by alphabetting on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @02:06PM (#30604613)

This is the way

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