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For the love of god, you read tweets you don't consume them. Please fight back against this appalling trend of word-wankery.
by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
For the love of god, you read tweets you don't consume them.
Please fight back against this appalling trend of word-wankery.
- kaonwarb 6y agoEh... this is an established usage of the word. Meets definition 3b in Merriam-Webster's, for example [1]. And what of photo/video tweets? [1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consume https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consume
- ValentineC 6y agoI haven't boycotted Twitter entirely, so writing that I've stopped reading tweets would have been inaccurate. I have, however, stopped reading tweet after tweet via the home feed habitually. I think it's fair to say that I've been consuming them.