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Aug 30, 2019

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

@AOC

Aug 29, 2019

1. I have 5.2 million followers. Less than 20 accounts are blocked for ongoing harassment. 0 are my constituents. 2. Harassment is not a viewpoint. Some accounts, like the Daily Caller, posted fake nude photos of me & abused my comments to spread it. No one is entitled to abuse. twitter.com/Columbia/statu…

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Sam Sykes

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Sep 2, 2019

Say something innocuous aloud like "I like soup." Now imagine that every time you say that, there is a 10% chance of someone who irrationally, unreasonably and furiously hates soup and perceives your declaration as an act of personal aggression against them. and that's twitter

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Nathan Taylor

@ntaylor963

Sep 29, 2019

Twitter experience by follower count (assuming you’re mostly polite): 100 - so so lonely 500 - occasional response 1k - twitter is fun! 5k - sometimes, twitter is fun 10k - I get why blue checks complain 50k - must take periodic breaks 100k - never tweet

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Sarah Haider

@SarahTheHaider

Oct 11, 2019

It doesn't "average" the replies, despite how hard I try to reason with myself. And although I am rather resilient, at this point Twitter feels like a form of self-abuse. The larger the following, the more minorities who will object to the mildest comment.

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It’s always people with 150 followers who are the ones who say “don’t feed the trolls!” or “why are you giving this person attention?” You couldn’t handle two mean tweets w/o shutting your account down...try hundreds/thousands in a day. Occasionally it feels good to respond

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Subrahmanyam KVJ

@SuB8u

Nov 30, 2019

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The value of Twitter rises with more follows for me. I keep discovering amazing folks, and even without engaging with them, I learn a lot.

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

Feb 25, 2020

I've noticed it's harder for me to engage with Twitter responses as my follower count grows; I think I'm just increasingly getting overwhelmed by replies and then not responding to any of them. People with high follower counts, how do you handle this?