Twitter is what YOU make it.

[WarGamer]

If you follow a bunch of photographers and wildlife accounts, you're going to see a lot of content about birds, coyotes, rabbits and deer.

If you follow a bunch of anti-vaxxers, flat earthers or Trumpists, that's what you're going to get.

Twitter is NOT force feeding content to ANYONE.

The algorithm checks out WHO you're following and what posts your reading and tailors your intake appropriately.

Twitter is a microcosm of society... you get what you put in. Your community, your friends and the things you choose to be important in your life will fill your life.

I'm not leaving Twitter, why would I?

[In It to Win It]

1. I follow 5 lawyers and that's it. It's where I get 99% of my SCOTUS articles

They don't retweet a bunch of right wingers. If I see right wing stuff, it's generally because I look for it. It's usually when I look up news about my state, Florida... or look to see what people are thinking.

[LeftInTX]

8. Yes..

[WarGamer]

2. To add...

If you make a point out of fighting with RW'ers... then Twitter will feed you lots of Gorka, Jordan, MTG, TFG and Don Jr...

Again... YOU make the choices that determine what kind of Twitter YOU experience.

[Archae]

3. I agree 100%.

On Twitter I follow a group devoted to Spyro The Dragon.

No politics.
No Trump.

[Kingofalldems]

4. No surprise once again.

[WarGamer]

6. agree, KOAD... I expect you to post that in every OP I make.

[Sympthsical]

22. I was reading about this author

Heinrich Kramer.

Rather odd fellow.

[Kingofalldems]

25. Heinrich Kramer?

Was he the guy who made up a backstory about himself?

[Sympthsical]

26. I mean, probably

His ideas did spread rather much farther than one would have hoped.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

5. I have learned so, so much from people I wouldn't otherwise have access to via Twitter. It's been

amazing.

[WarGamer]

7. Precisely.

When it was new I thought, "How stupid, what are people going to post? I just left the grocery store, just took a dump... going to the movies tonight"

That's going to be lame.

Then you discover that the content, especially from people you find interesting is much different than the "press releases"

AND the access to famous people that actually read what you write.

I was responding to a Twitter post asking "Celebrity Crushes from the 50's-90's"...

And my 90's crush was a little off-the-wall so I @'d the actress when I answered the question and she actually replied and thanked me. Kinda funny!

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. okay but who was it tho

[WarGamer]

13. My celebrity crushes

50's Lucille Ball, incredibly talented but a real woman ahead of her time... she was Oprah before Oprah was Oprah.

60's... I have two. Barbara Bouchet and Jeffrey Hunter, both from Star Trek

70's Catherine Bach

80's Carole Boquet, of For your Eyes Only fame

90's Baywatch Gena Lee Nolin... aka @GenaLeeNolin

[WhiskeyGrinder]

15. "Oh...you're trying to seduce me."

[WarGamer]

17. nailed it!!

[ForgedCrank]

30. I was

struck by Bernadette Peters when I was a kid. I thought she was the most beautiful creature to ever walk the earth.
I snapped out of it when I saw Phoebe Cates.

[WarGamer]

32. good choices!

[I_UndergroundPanther]

33. I live

In baltimore and remember when Oprah was on the news. Everything back then looks so dated now.

[Fullduplexxx]

9. Then I would like to make it worthless to trump and his errand boy

[Scrivener7]

11. No it's not. It's what the press makes it.

Twitter got tfg elected. I'm guessing you didn't make that.

[Tree Lady]

12. The problem isn't Twitter as much as its the media

And others spreading around and talking about every tweet Trump does and talking basically non stop about it.

If the media would continue ignoring him it would be ok let him rant like a crazy old man.

[Caliman73]

27. Twitter is media.

Like it or not Social Media is Media now. People saying stupid shit on Twitter, if they are famous, or if it is worth viewership, will get put on at the very least, cable news. If the news is "viral" enough, it may make it to legacy broadcast media.

Media doesn ignore Trump, even off of Social media. Every stupid release is talked about. Thing is, Trump is lazy so if he can't get an instant bump from Tweeting from the toilet or whereever, he doesn't want to make the effort.

[Initech]

14. I've been doing my best to thwack as many MAGA trolls as possible!

[Cha]

16. Good, George Takei isn't leaving, either..

I'm not leaving now and will support those who are Fighting for our Democracy.

💙💛

[Caliman73]

28. But you will also be supporting Elon Musk.

Just have to point that out. Musk is going to make a lot of money off of this coming "fight" that he is instigating. He is like a WWE villain marketing this "fight"

[Cha]

31. That's Obvious. I'm staying and Fighiting.

Link to tweet

💙💛

[randr]

18. I'd say we are force feed twitter tweets here

I still do not know what makes anything the "tweet de jour"

[Swede]

19. I now have almost 40,000 blocked.

My Twitter experience is pretty good.

[rockfordfile]

20. Stop making excuses for the un-American fascist pos that owns it. Really?

Nobody gives a shit about following. It's about the current un-American fascist owner. A owner of racist car company that had to pay out millions. The pos wants to live in our country and push Russian propaganda against our democracy and our allies.

It's time to leave twitter unless you're full of shit.

I'm thinking about the racist un-American pos LA Clippers owner a few years ago. It's clear some on here would still support that pos. Because they support the same kind of un-American pos.

[luv2fly]

34. Thank you for saying what I was thinking

I just hadn't gotten around to typing a reply yet and now I don't have to.

While I can understand the "stay on Twitter and fight them" perspective, in the end you're supporting Musk and in all likelihood he will be supporting people who spread lies and threaten democracy.

But a lot of people here love themselves some Facebook too. Same problem, different fucking billionaire.

[madville]

21. Mine is all auto racing

F1, Indy Car, NASCAR, etc.

That’s pretty much all I see on there.

[BlackSkimmer]

23. This Twitter uproar on DU is the funniest thing I've seen in years.

My bet is the the twittiest retweeters here will continue to twit, tweet, whatever it’s called.

Staying tuned.

[dixiechiken1]

24. Today, I made it gone.

[ecstatic]

29. This is why the right walks all over us.

If we can't commit to not lining the pockets of a rw asshole, what can we commit to? This type of weakness is why tfg is still prancing around the country & spreading his bile as if nothing happened on Jan 6.

If nothing else, we should at least set a red line for what we will not tolerate from EM with regard to his shiny new toy.