1/ Claude Shannon made the point that the more information dense a signal is, the more it looks like static. Same thing w tweets (bc they're just signals).
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2/ absolute lowest tier: Abortion is health care! Abortion is health care! Abortion is health care! (also Trump won the election! Trump won the election! Trump won the election! ) like 0.1 bits of info there.
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3/ One step up is repeating crap that everyone in the target audience already knows. "OMG, you'll never guess what the { godless lesbian baby killers / disgusting inbred racist homophobic Christians } did now? In <location X> they did <thing they always do> !!!"
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4/ Half a steps further up you get the kinda-slightly-smarter-than-average political blogs. Kinda.pic.twitter.com/cynPPMBEmG
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5/ and so forth and so on at the top tier there's basically only * pure static, like the female terminator in T3 screeching Hoon code into a cell phone * esoteric poasting make deep points about regime evolution via ironic Zardoz memes * doggospic.twitter.com/TKfDdQfAU2
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6/ I apologize for the fact that this tweet thread was midwit tier. I will poast doggo pix later
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