Twitter has a dirty little secret

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https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2021/11/12/twitter-has-a-dirty-little-secret-n1532099">PJ Media

Twitter has a dirty little secret, something CEO Jack Dorsey and his hundreds of millions of users — some of whom might even be real — don't want you to know.

Nobody cares what happens on Twitter.

When I say "nobody," I don't mean people like you, gentle reader, who were probably too smart to ever get involved on the pond-scum platform. I don't even mean people like myself, who fell in love with Twitter in its early days, but who finally quit when the oppressive Woke nonsense got to be too much.

When I say "nobody cares what happens on Twitter" I'm talking about the actual people — seriously, I'm assured some of them are probably real — who use Twitter.

To explain what I mean, you'll need a little background.

Three weeks ago, my PJ Media friend and colleague Matt Margolis was suspended from Twitter for linking to his own VIP column stating that assistant secretary for Health and pretend four-star admiral Rachel Levine is male.

Matt refused to remove the "offending" tweet and the logjam between him and Twitter remains unchanged, three weeks later.

I couldn't be more proud of Matt for standing his ground.

I also couldn't be more proud of our managing editor, Paula Bolyard, for taking Matt's side and provoking an even bigger fight with Dorsey and his digital flash-mob goons. "When Matt tweeted out his article," Paula wrote a week after Matt's lock-out, "his Twitter account was promptly locked. When PJ Media tweeted it out shortly thereafter, our official account was also locked."

And so things still stand, two weeks later.

But to give you an idea of what our company-wide suspension has meant to us in real terms, I want you to imagine a particular scenario.

You're enjoying a nice conversation in a dark bar when a big, tough-looking guy starts getting in your face, telling you to shut your mouth. You try to ignore him, but the taunting persists. Finally, you've had enough, and you tell the bully you'll meet him outside.

But once you see him clearly for the first time, illuminated under a bright streetlamp, you can tell that the man who looked so big and tough under cover of darkness is actually quite old and much frailer than you'd thought.

That's Twitter.

When Facebook decides to hurt PJ Media, they can really hurt PJ Media. People, for whatever reason, actually use Facebook to find news, read news, and share news. So when we annoy the Facebook Gods, it seriously hurts our bottom line.

But PJ Media has been at war with Twitter now for nearly a month, and guess what: Our traffic hasn't been affected one whit.

People don't go to Twitter to actually find, read, and share the news. They go there for (at best) small talk, and at worst, for shouting down their political opponents.

When you share a PJ Media link on Facebook (those times they allow it!), your connections click on that link and read our stuff. Thanks for that, by the way. But when you share a PJ Media link on Twitter... nothing happens. People — and Dorsey assures us that some of them might still be real — don't read jack on Twitter. They scan the headlines, if that, and then get on with the serious business of spewing more malice-flavored ignorance.

Spending a few hours on Twitter doesn't make anyone any better informed than spending a few minutes scanning Cosmo and National Enquirer headlines in the supermarket checkout aisle.

Twitter actually is Macbeth's "tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Twitter is Seinfeld's "show about nothing." It turned out to be almost embarrassingly easy to take a stand against Twitter. Despite its millions of users and billions of dollars, Twitter doesn't matter in any meaningful way.

So Twitter shut us down. So what?

Like the dead Russian he's come to look just like, Jack Dorsey is our American Rasputin — a charlatan and a hanger-on whose work soothes the troubled minds of a corrupt (and ultimately doomed) ruling class.

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[JParis]

As I've said for years, Twitter is a cesspool...

I deleted my accounts, personal and business, years ago

[gcode]

I never had a Twitter account
I closed my Facebook and LinkdIn accounts during the last election cycle

[neurosis]

tldr.  are there cliff notes?

[CNCAppsJames]

Never had a Twatter account. As Jocko Willink said; "Twitter is a failed state.". I wholeheartedly agree.

Deleted my FarceBook account October 1, 2020 and never looked back. I do have an Instagram account. 95% work, gun, military, coffee, and veteran related stuff. A lot of my customers are on there (and are vets) so it's another way they can reach me. I'm cool with it.

I have a LinkedIn account... not very active on it.

[Jim at Gentex]

No Twatter for me either.
Never even considered it.  

I keep a Facebook profile ONLY so I can keep my church's page active, because it is convenient and free to live stream our Sunday services for a few folks who can't be there in person.
If / when that ever changes, I will be outta there too.

I also have a LinkedIn account but I rarely look at it.

[HTM01]

I have a LinkedIn account... not very active on it.

LinkedIn is like Hotel California you can "check out anytime you want but you can never leave"
tried to delete/disable but it just keeps coming back

[neurosis]

I created a twitter account years ago.  I read it for about three days and realized that it was a giant cesspool of keyboard warriors.  

I don't think that I ever made a single post on there.

[mayday]

I created a twitter Emastercam account years ago.  I read it for about three days and realized that it was a giant cesspool of keyboard warriors.  

I don't think that I ever made a single meaningful post on there.

     

[Shazam/TPP]

Emastercam??? never heard of them  

[Dan_AKA_ROY23]

I got a 24 hour suspension. Another infraction and permanent.

My tweet response?

I tweeted, "I hope they hang the mf'er!"

(Subject was about a guy found guilty in court. His crime? Raped and brutally killed a 12 year old girl. Raped, beat, then stabbed her like 50 times)

[Dan_AKA_ROY23]

I do have an Instagram account.

Which is owned by Facebook. Welcome to the Metaverse. rofl

[mkd]

Learning how Jack D became the head of Twatter is even more scandalous than what zuckerturd did.
 the literal creator of twatter got thrown out due to jack's back stabbing

[neurosis]

Worse than Zucker?  It has to be bad then.

[Jim at Gentex]

My wife got a temporary suspension on Farcebook for discussing her recent stay in the hospital for COVID.
She told a friend of hers that shortly after she tested positive in the ER and was admitted to the hospital, they started her on oxygen and Remdesivir.
Every word of it was true, but Farcebook took down her post saying she was posting 'misinformation'.  

F'kin cowards won't even talk to you about it either.
You get a temporary suspension for the first offense, and banned for longer periods if you do it again.

All of these social media platforms are a joke IMO, and it doesn't take much to get them to prove it.