Started May 29, 2020.
Have a look at the twitter live stats meter.
Every second, on average, around 6,000 tweets are tweeted on Twitter (visualize them here), which corresponds to over 350,000 tweets sent per minute, 500 million tweets per day and around 200 billion tweets per year.
Twitter is not a discussion medium, it is a notation medium, and that's it.
A billion post-it notes on a board do not make a discussion.
Billions of messages gathered together are not a discussion.
Every handbill on the telephone pole competes with all the others.
Amplified subsets of comments are not a discussion.
Discussion requires all participants be addressed and contribute to all the other participants.
Not all voices can speak at once.
Not all voices can be heard at once.
Silent observation is a necessary contribution.
Listening is a necessary contribution.
Listening, not parroting or imitating.
Stop expecting empathy from twitter.
Stop demanding it when you don't get it.
Re-tweeting is a form of addiction.
You're letting someone else tell you how you feel.
Once the complaints start, it becomes a race to the bottom.
Everybody has it worse than everybody else.
It's so easy to write trash. One can do it carelessly. Others do it trying make another point.
But others seek out any mistake in typed speech in order to take offense, just waiting to go off, so they can tar anyone who captialized on their advantages (natural or social) of having been born into the Original Sin of privilege and hence undeserving of the empathy and understanding and privilege they demand for themselves.
The rally for "allyship" is short-sighted, quite bigoted, and insincere.
Men and women are not allies, they are brothers and sisters - even when they are fighting.
They forget that when they're angry, afraid.
If you're not angry, they say, you don't care - you're the problem.
Almost everyone on Twitter reaches the anger and bitterness and frustration - alienation - stage upon finding out that no one is listening to you except by accident or coincidence.
No one is listening to you because they're too busy trying to get you to listen to them first.
That is not discourse.
Of all the works and doings of history, name one, produced in anger, that led to a better world.
Anger is understandable but hardly commendable.
Drawn out repeated anger is also a privilege.
If you're angry, you're losing.