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gp is complaining about third parties quoting tweets out of context. When Twitter's raison d'être is out of context quoting. He saw trees, I'm glad to point at
by pacala 7y ago
gp is complaining about third parties quoting tweets out of context. When Twitter's raison d'être is out of context quoting. He saw trees, I'm glad to point at the whole forest.
- V-eHGsd_ 7y agogp wasn't talking about tweets being taken out of context. they were talking about reporters using an entire tweet from a random person to support a random theory.
- pacala 7y agoTweets are mass produced quotable out of context discourse. To be harvested to support arbitrary theories.
- V-eHGsd_ 7y agoit seems like your beef is with twitter generally, but gp (at least by my reading) was more complaining about the journalists that rely on it in this particular way, not the underlying platform. I agree that twitter is a cesspool and does not encourage thoughtful communication, but it feels a little forced to me in this conversation.