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I hate when articles hide behind an invented "Twitter backlash", and then include 4-5 tweets with a handful of retweets. 6,000 tweets are sent every single seco
by gkoberger 11y ago
I hate when articles hide behind an invented "Twitter backlash", and then include 4-5 tweets with a handful of retweets. 6,000 tweets are sent every single second. You could build a narrative for anything with that logic.
If your best example is a grammatically challenged tweet that racked up 4 favs and a retweet... you're probably inventing a controversy.
Here's some insane examples from the first page of a Google News search for "Twitter Backlash":
http://www.prweek.com/article/1372418/apple-faces-twitter-backlash-racism-allegation-australia-store http://www.prweek.com/article/1372418/apple-faces-twitter-ba...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/ruby-rose-faces-backlash-twitter-6833436 http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/ruby-rose-faces-b...
http://www.eonline.com/news/711079/raven-symone-angers-twitter-with-her-spring-valley-high-school-assault-comments http://www.eonline.com/news/711079/raven-symone-angers-twitt...
http://www.her.ie/life/bloomingdales-forced-to-apologise-to-twitter-backlash-after-including-date-rape-message-in-christmas-catalogue/264317 http://www.her.ie/life/bloomingdales-forced-to-apologise-to-...
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