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.
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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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Only applies to delicate sensibility cozyweb accounts with obscure, vaguely poetic taste-Twitter aesthetic
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Ah yes I see
My account is more of the run-of-the-mill forgettable-medicore hogwash kind
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