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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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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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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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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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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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I'm sensing my twitter presence is passing through some sort of threshold where I'm apparently a more attractive target for trolls, replyguys, beef-seekers etc. Maybe 30k followers is the threshold where things stop being as much fun and the not-fun part grows faster 
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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?
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I still haven’t turned this on fwiw - not sure when I will
though I almost certainly would if I were Aella
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I turned at about 30k
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