#canwejustbantwitter

KellyXX

#canwejustbantwitter so that everyone is ALLOWED to make up their OWN mind about everything and not be bullied by the mob.

Pleeeeze. I'm sick of reading about hashtags for everything and then an online mob attacking the people who aren't part of the mob.

There, I said it.

Jawgap

KellyXX wrote: »

#canwejustbantwitter so that everyone is ALLOWED to make up their OWN mind about everything and not be bullied by the mob.

Pleeeeze. I'm sick of reading about hashtags for everything and then an online mob attacking the people who aren't part of the mob.

There, I said it.

Then don't read them.

wexie

.....we can just not use Twitter? seems a simple enough solution.

Kimbot

Your sick of reading about hashtag so you then go and create a post wth hash tags....... :pac:

Grayson

Voluntarily reading a hash tag is bullying?

seamus

The great thing about twitter is that if you don't look at it, it doesn't exist.

Except for the media occasionally commenting on what the Orange one said on Twitter, it has zero relevance day-to-day if you don't look at it.

The Backwards Man

If eejits on Twitter can change your opinion on something it wasn't a very strongly held opinion in the first place.

KellyXX

Jawgap wrote: »

Then don't read them.

I don't.
But every fcukin news article these days is based on Twitter and composed of tweets and tweet replies.
The journal is notorious for it. They can make up 10 articles a day spooling off tweets.

Rte are at it lately too.

Kimbot

KellyXX wrote: »

I don't.
But every fcukin news article these days is based on Twitter and composed of tweets and tweet replies.
The journal is notorious for it. They can make up 10 articles a day spooling off tweets.

Rte are at it lately too.

Then dont read the journal....... or block twitter so you dont see it.

KellyXX

jonnycivic wrote: »

Your sick of reading about hashtag so you then go and create a post wth hash tags....... :pac:

You are quick you are

Kimbot

KellyXX wrote: »

You are quick you are

sbsquarepants

No, don't ban twitter.

Then I'd have to go to the bother of downloading some other shíte or other to see celebrity vaginas.

#savethevagpics

KellyXX

jonnycivic wrote: »

Double sarcasm alert. Or are we at triple at the moment. I give up.

Ursus Horribilis

Journalists love Twitter because they can find content without having to lift a finger. As a mere mortal, I've survived very nicely until now without having an active twitter account.

Jawgap

KellyXX wrote: »

I don't.
But every fcukin news article these days is based on Twitter and composed of tweets and tweet replies.
The journal is notorious for it. They can make up 10 articles a day spooling off tweets.

Rte are at it lately too.

Then don't read the journal - and deffo don't read the comments.

I tend to avoid the journal (and the d'Indo) because, basically, they're sh1te.

The thing I like about twitter is I can choose who I follow/don't follow - and likewise nobody makes me click on a hashtag #itsyourchoice

wexie

can I just point out perhaps that maybe a #hashtagcampaign may be more successful on.....you know.....Twitter?

pleas advice

Jawgap wrote: »

#itsyourchoice

#repeat

wexie

Jawgap wrote: »

#itsyourchoice

#:D

Get Real

Funnily enough, only in the past week I took the Twitter plunge.

I have signed up to a wide arrange of accounts with completely different viewpoints, and find it quite amusing reading the extremes of all different kinds of movements and opinions. It allows me to observe what seems to be a steadfast blind belief of "both sides" to a particular argument.

Through this, I find I can find a middlegrpund somewhere, and learn that there are people out there who refuse to have any line bar their own, which is a dangerous thing for any group.

Wanderer78

People must be reading some ****e on twitter, I find it very informative

Kimbot

KellyXX wrote: »

Double sarcasm alert. Or are we at triple at the moment. I give up.

#sarcasmrocks

donegaLroad

I use Twitter a lot, and I manage to avoid the political stuff. You can tailor your Twitter feed so that tweets will match your areas of interest. Read up on how to use the Twitter settings and you will be in control of what and who appears.

Grayson

Jawgap wrote: »

Then don't read the journal - and deffo don't read the comments.

I tend to avoid the journal (and the d'Indo) because, basically, they're sh1te.

The thing I like about twitter is I can choose who I follow/don't follow - and likewise nobody makes me click on a hashtag #itsyourchoice

The journal is fcuking horrific. It's clickbait masquerading as journalism. And the comment section must be one of the most toxic, and stupid, places online.

KellyXX

jonnycivic wrote: »

#sarcasmrocks

#metoo

Assetbacked

What is extremely dangerous is that Twitter has a political agenda yet gets consulted on data protection and free speech on the internet.

One clear example I noticed recently was in respect of a serial killer arrested in the US a few weeks ago (black male). The police department tweeted that they had arrested a male in connection with a shooting and even used the word serial killer as he was suspected of carrying out several other murders. Imagine the reaction to a "black serial killer"? Well, Twitter have deleted tweets discussing this man as a serial killer and there was no news story of it on the twitter newsfeed. However, the stories that were included on the news feed at the time were about Trump tweeting some nonsense, Millie Bobby Brown meeting her hero at an awards ceremony, the French "anti-" #MeToo response (which was essentially an argument against turning the issue into a black and white issue).

Another example is in respect of "shadow banning" which essentially means that certain anti-establishment (anti-Twitter effectively) tweets do not show up except to the person that tweets. Therefore, for that person, it does not appear that anything is out of the ordinary but their tweet will not be given exposure to the masses as a normal tweet would.

I am friends with a Twitter employee and there is, according to this employee, a certain "line of thought" and viewpoint which must be put across and any dissenting or arguments are viewed with hostility to the point of not being welcomed at all.

All of the above is fine as it is a company rather than a governmental body but it's important that Twitter is not given a platform from which to preach about free speech as if it is an authority on the matter.

Hector Savage

BBC are doing it a lot lately too, especially with lighter stories, to pad out the story they just rehearse a load of tweets from just regular social media users.

17 year old Joe Bloggs from Athlone says ... bla bla ..

Lazy journalism, surprised with the BBC - even if the story is a light one, they should do better.

retro:electro

Twitter is the online equivalent of your parents riding. If you don't think about it, it never doesn't exist and it never happened.

_Dara_

KellyXX wrote: »

I don't.
But every fcukin news article these days is based on Twitter and composed of tweets and tweet replies.
The journal is notorious for it. They can make up 10 articles a day spooling off tweets.

Rte are at it lately too.

Yeah, those "articles" are annoying but I find that's it only the lower rent news sites that overdo them. The Journal, feckin' Joe.ie and the like. Avoid them and you're laughing.

biko

#hash puts the fun in #hashtag

Stuckforcash

#notmycaptain followed by the judges clarifying comments regarding Rory Best sums twitter up nicely. A place for fools that can't think for themselves to feel a part of a "movement."

One eyed Jack

KellyXX wrote: »

I don't.
But every fcukin news article these days is based on Twitter and composed of tweets and tweet replies.
The journal is notorious for it. They can make up 10 articles a day spooling off tweets.

Rte are at it lately too.

Banning something like twitter only gives rise to an opportunity for something else to take it's place. Content creators on YouTube are having their videos demonetised left, right and centre, so they've just moved to other platforms and ways to support their channels.

The journal would just use stuff off Boards if they couldn't use stuff off twitter. I'm still holding out for the Boards revival to it's former glory where nobody still knew what you were talking about when you said you had been reading Boards.

Caliden

The vocal minority are getting a voice and surprise surprise, they're still idiots.

pilly

KellyXX wrote: »

I don't.
But every fcukin news article these days is based on Twitter and composed of tweets and tweet replies.
The journal is notorious for it. They can make up 10 articles a day spooling off tweets.

Rte are at it lately too.

Totally agree, there are headlines like "Fans call for so and so's resignation" because maybe 2 people said it on Twitter.

Absolute madness.

pilly

Ursus Horribilis wrote: »

Journalists love Twitter because they can find content without having to lift a finger. As a mere mortal, I've survived very nicely until now without having an active twitter account.

I've never been on Twitter in my life and yet I'm informed every day about what's trending, it's sickening.

KellyXX

_Dara_ wrote: »

Yeah, those "articles" are annoying but I find that's it only the lower rent news sites that overdo them. The Journal, feckin' Joe.ie and the like. Avoid them and you're laughing.

Oh Jesus. Joe.ie. Heaven save us.
What a waste of band width that site is.

Peatys

KellyXX wrote: »

I don't.
But every fcukin news article these days is based on Twitter and composed of tweets and tweet replies.
The journal is notorious for it. They can make up 10 articles a day spooling off tweets.

Rte are at it lately too.

The media exists to keep you in a mentally fragile state so you'll buy stuff to improve yourself.
If you don't realise this, they're doing a good job on you. I'd you do realise this, then Twitter, Facebook, rte news, etc will have no affect on you.

Hector Savage

anna080 wrote: »

Twitter is the online equivalent of your parents riding. If you don't think about it, it never doesn't exist and it never happened.

nice analogy !

Pherekydes

#idontunderstandthistwitterbusiness

#whateverhappenedtousingaphone :pac: