People with crap-loaded long-handles and lots of irrelevant hashtags in tweets seem a bit like homeless people: wearing too many mismatched clothes, taking all their stuff everywhere in shopping carts.
Similarity runs deeper: no Twitter-friends, only rant-targets.
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I strongly suspect there are “Twitter homeless” who have the same problem of social isolation, no online home, mental illness risks. Reliant entirely on impersonal algorithmic curation for their feed, visible as noise but not as humans to the connected, easily mistaken for bots.
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I think online homelessness is going to be as severe a problem as offline in the future, as more online life gets “urbanized” on the larger platforms.
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Crypto twitter has a particularly high incidence of Twitter homelessness. Even after you eliminate the obvious pumping bots and sketchy PR flacks, you’re left with a lot of lonely people trying to connect over some shitcoin social object.
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Twitter-homeless guy here; can confirm.
Part of the problem is the strategy that works on forums - inject yrself into a thread wherever you like - feels rude on Twitter. I do it anyway despite sense everyone involved hates it, b/c I have no clue what else to do w/ no followers.
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