Once you’re old enough on Twitter, QTing starts to feel more like the decorously avuncular sidebar move than the conversation hijacking jerk move. Like you don’t want to interrupt the main conversation.
Conversation
It’s the online equivalent of muttering to yourself in a way that can be easily ignored by anyone who doesn’t want to pay attention.
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Depends on whether you’re snarking, hostile-spotlighting, cannibalizing, or forking off a distraction. In my case the intent at least is usually the last.
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I used t feel bad about carelessly mis-QTing, especially much smaller accounts with an obvious cozyweb energy that don’t like the attention. Now I feel bad about directly replying on main. Feels a bit rude.
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I aspire to Bruce Sterling level avuncularity. He only QTs and it’s only ever charming, never feels big-account hostile. And he’s usually going on about something that’s entirely his thing mostly unrelated to the quoted thing. I couldn’t pull that off.
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Still, this account is a bit too big to QT wantonly without being a nuisance. I should start using one of my alts for QTing.
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