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Why You Shouldn’t Quit Twitter
Twitter is sewn into the world fabric. You just can’t tear it down.
Last week I wrote about why you should quit Twitter. I didn’t like, and still don’t like, what Twitter represents — a never-ending highlight reel of regurgitations, recriminations, and ruminations.
Twitter comprises roughly 330 million users from all walks, strolls, and sprints who dialogue about everything from how to ”cancel Goodyear tires” to Big Brother spoilers. Twitter is available in many languages. Around the world, Twitter users can follow the AirBNB IPO in English, Thai, Spanish, and the ever so exotic Canadian.
My argument was straightforward. I argued that Twitter is a bizarre bazaar where, based upon how the news blows, cultural points are bought, sold, debated, and destroyed.
With hashtags, Limbaugh feeds his ravens breadcrumbs of conservative hate and his followers eat it up. They retweet it, favorite it, and then wait for the moment to crap it on your windshield.
I argued that Twitter is unhinged relative to Facebook and LinkedIn. The latter do a better job at keeping our primitive proclivities in check. Twitter, conversely, knows no bounds and shows little respect.
Also, I argued how Twitter is all about Twitter and nothing else or no one else. And because of that, I argued that Twitter is bad for the brain.
I Did Not Quit Twitter
I know you’ll look at me like I told you that Vick’s Vap-O-Rub will cure Covid when I tell you I haven’t quit Twitter. But honestly, if Leah Remini has a podcast about Scientology, then Twitter has it’s purpose.
The value in Twitter is for those who have an agenda regardless of political correctness. Again, as I said, Tweeters cannot expect everyone to like what you wrote no matter how you write it; Tweetees can’t expect to like everything they read no matter how it’s presented. Expression and consumption take emotional intelligence, discipline, and is a social responsibility. If these are responsibilities you’re not willing to bear, by all means, please quit Twitter.
However, if you’re mature to manage your triggers, then definitely hang around.
The fact is Twitter needs you. You can help police those who find Twitter an apt temple to test temptation.
Few people encapsulate this test better than Rush Limbaugh-the conservative radio host. One tweet calling Kamala Harris a ho, and boom, a fire twornado spins across the twittersphere.
And Limbaugh doesn’t care. Twitter is the perfect place for such devil’s play and he knows it. With hashtags, Limbaugh feeds his ravens breadcrumbs of conservative hate and his followers eat it up. They retweet it, favorite it, and then wait for the moment to crap it on your windshield.
On Twitter, he doesn’t feel the need to endear himself to a civil society that makes this great nation the greatest nation. And that’s why Twitter needs you.
Limbaugh is a classic case to demonstrate how it’s up to everyone else to make sure such nonsense slows down. On Twitter, he can warp context and deregulate himself from mainstream ideas, expectations, and social norms regardless of others’ agitations and it works. And Rush believes he’s on the right, angelic path because he’s a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom-an award that emboldens him to further tweet nonsense to his 351,000 followers and do so credibly.
And, quite frankly, he has every right to do what he’s doing.
Does he have to curtail his show to “meet the moment”? No, he does not.
Does he have to like what he reads about and hears about himself from you? No, he does not.
Can you speak out against him on Twitter. Yes, you can.
I argued how Twitter is all about Twitter and nothing else or no one else. And because of that, I argued that Twitter is bad for the brain.
Can you send him a picture of your butt on Instagram? I don’t use Instagram, but probably.
And therein lies the rub; if you remain on Twitter, you can help keep Twitter the cesspool it already is. Likewise, if you’re not a self-regulating human being, please do yourself, and everyone else, a favor and leave.
Twitter Can Save Your Life
Stay with Twitter because Twitter can save your life. Twitter is efficient. So much so, it’s where you can keep up with what’s happening around the country, and the world, on a moment-by-moment basis. Where else will you learn things that can kill you from riots and undelivered medications, to California wildfires and bad zoom speeches? Huh, where? Pigeons?
As I said, each social platform serves a social purpose. Facebook for personal circumstances. LinkedIn for professional pursuits. Instagram for butts.
And Twitter? It’s purpose is undefined. The place is a blank canvas where you can digitally create the circumstances to tweet your way to promoting products, building bridges, and tweet #GoCeltics. You feel me BostonCelticsForever?
All any of us can do is ask to keep it civil and constructive. If you stay on Twitter, use it wisely. Like Roz Warren say something that builds and entertains, read a poem by Tooth Truth Roopa Vikesh and tweet about it, and promote your product and safety too. Things must get better and you can tweet us to a better place.
That said, whatever you do, don’t Rush it.
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