One of the most interesting things I learned in 2017 is that people obviously self-organise on Twitter. Even with my small number of followers/unfollowers the cliques and groupings follow (and indeed unfollow; pun intended) very specific patterns.
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Does this make a little more sense?
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I wonder how the unfollows propagate through the network. Do they occur at once, as if precipitated by a single event? Or is there a sort of temporal wave?
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Ohhh, I'm so online that I thought you were referring to primarily online social groups. Now that is weird... :|
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It's really interesting don't you think?
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Interesting, yes, but also that in particular would make me outright paranoid.
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I'm used to people either loving or hating me. I'm obviously a strange person.

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I'm sure there are people who hate me too, but I've seldom received such a blunt shunning like that :(
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Science is very cliquey. So it comes with the territory.

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That's true. I've seen it before in awful ways--in one case to the extent that it drove a (woman, ofc) classmate out of the field. I didn't even know about it until they confided in me after already deciding to get out.
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That's really disappointing but as you can imagine, I'm not surprised.

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