I think what really annoys me about this is the presumption that Twitter *matters* a lot more than it actually does And that therefore all of us on here somehow matter
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I still think about the Arab Spring and the incredibly self-aggrandizing role tech people gave Twitter in that whole series of events
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This nonsense where people deliberately conflated "using Twitter as a tool to evade censorship and communicate with people you already know irl" with the totally different, much stupider idea that "Twitter is where politics happens now, tweeting is organizing"
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People turning their pfps green and shit I really do feel like the wave of green-tinted icons that swept Twitter in 2009 encapsulates the utter narcissistic stupidity that would define the Western clique of "everyone on Twitter" for the next decade
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