The fact that some people who saw the crisis coming first are also now predicting the most horrible/radical outcomes could be a sign of their prescience, but it could also be that they're guided by a doom aesthetic whose past performance might not be indicative of future accuracy
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The doom aesthetic is extremely aerodynamic right now on Twitter, and it's not mysterious why. But the US lockdown isn't four weeks old. It seems pretty early to have a high degree of confidence about how the world is going to change.
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I would love twitter to create a tracker for predictive tweets. People could aim to increase their scoreboard accuracy instead of their followings.
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