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Sam Sykes

@SamSykesSwears

· 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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Yashar Ali

@yashar

· Nov 19, 2019

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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Venkatesh Rao

@vgr

· Jan 2, 2020

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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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?